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The eMatchPhysicians Blog 
Electronic Medical Records Boost Efficiencies
Posted on: Thursday, July 30, 2009
In a recent study of 20 healthcare workers conducted at Roudebush VA Medical Center, researchers found that pen and paper workarounds to electronic medical records (EMR) actually improved the efficiency of the work being conducted. The most frequently cited reason for the 125 incidents of paper use was efficiency and ease of use. A computer can’t be with the healthcare worker at all times, so jotted notes usually substitute until they can make it back to a terminal.
While EMR’s and their availability will no doubt make the national healthcare system more efficient in terms of reporting and improving patient care through access to records from other physicians, at a microcosmic level individual work is enhanced by pen and paper use. The most important thing is that the pen and paper workarounds are teed up later with the electronic record, as a failure to do this may lead to serious mistakes in the EMR.
One of the items labeled as useful in the study was the issuance of pink index cards to patients admitted with high blood pressure, which were then passed on to the physician. This offered an expedient visual clue as to the state of the patient and the information was later entered into their EMR.
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