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The Future of Electronic Medical Record Vendors

In the recent years, technology has brought us a lot of possibilities, especially in the medical industry. What used to be the tedious job of collecting medical files and storing them in folders are almost gone especially when the President already announced the move for the standardization of electronic medical records to all hospitals in the country.

With this news, electronic medical record vendors have popped up like mushrooms after the rain. Many of these electronic medical record vendors offer their software not just to physicians but also to the patients. This is a cause of concern since patients have no understanding of the medical practice and yet they can view their medical profile. These patients may make assumptions about their condition even without consulting with the doctor.

However, electronic medical record vendors are a business and concerns such as those are mostly left to the doctors. The software these electronic medical record vendors use has a feature that can limit the number of patients who can view their record or even block any computer from downloading any files from the doctor's unit.

These electronic medical record vendors are truly amazing in a sense that they have kept improving their products to better serve the medical community. Aside from taking the electronic medical records software to the desktops, they are now integrating it to the Internet.

Other innovations by these electronic medical record vendors are the user of biometric identifiers and additional data entry methods for the medical record software. Biometric identifiers use physical attributes unique to an individual, such as a fingerprint or retinal scan, to identify users.

As for data entry devices, electronic medical record vendors offer light pens, voice recognition and touch screens as alternatives to the usual keyboard and mouse.

Even though a centralized mainframe for electronic medical records is still far from happening, these electronic medical record vendors are getting the idea. The path to something as important like the driver's license system, where a criminal can be traced through their driver's license record, could play a vital role in the health system of the country.

One of the problems faced by electronic medical record vendors is the lack of standardized forms used for different kinds of departments in the hospital, different states and different hospitals. As the industry keeps growing and support for electronic medical records increase, such obstacle will soon disappear.

For the moment, the use of different types of software is not too much of a problem. Since each clinic or hospital has their own system, the tedious and time consuming task of record keeping is greatly eased and the sharing of these records with other doctors within the hospital is hassle-free.

In the year 2000, the Family Practice Management's held its third survey of electronic medical record vendors. The categories they used are as follows:

* General Design Attributes
* Health care provider functionality and
* Patient functionality

Among the electronic medical record vendors who participated, the best systems were ChartWare, EpicCare, Health Probe and Logician.

Though the future of electronic medical record vendors is still uncertain, it is hopeful. With each day that technology improves, it allows us to direct focus to our needs, find a solution to it and create a product to make our lives a little better.
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