California Area OfficeDoes the EHR provide superior patient safety?
The EHR is designed to help providers manage, in a paperless, electronic environment, all aspects of patient care. By moving data retrieval and documentation operations to the EHR, patient care activities can occur simultaneously at multiple locations. It provides a full range of functions for data capture and retrieval to support the patient encounter, review, and follow-up including:
- Patient lookup and personalized patient lists
- Problem list management
- Results notification and retrieval
- Report retrieval
- Document signing (in progress)
- Clinical encounter documentation
- Clinical decision support
- Coding support (ICD and CPT)
- Consult/referral generation and tracking
- Health maintenance, immunizations, and reminders
- Patient education and health and reproductive factors
