Electronic Health Records

Electronic Health Records

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Identify a health information technology system, explain how it improves healthcare outcomes. Identify the organization you work for uses this system. Used APA format and 2 references

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Health information technology has revolutionized the healthcare sector by presenting the benefits of using computerized systems to perform health tasks. Electronic health record (EHR) is a health technology software that stores a wide range of information of patients. The information may include present and past data on diagnoses, treatment, x-rays screening tests et cetera. Although commonly interchanged with the electronic medical record (EMR), EHR is more complex that EMR in that it can store a lot of information which is accessible from different locations (Henry et al, 2016). If a patient is transferred to another facility, physicians at the new location can access all…

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