Hospitals Use Tablets as Extension of EMRs

           Some leading hospitals are turning to tablets (iPads and iPad-like devices) as a way to improve access to patient health records for providers. These devices are seen as a way to make greater use of an electronic medical record’s (EMR) capabilities. Hospitals are piloting the use of tablets with a few sectors of its workforce. Clinicians can use tablets to look up patient information on their way to a patient who is crashing and better know how to treat the patient upon arriving. Other hospital staff can use tablets on their rounds and data that is entered is synced with the hospital’s full EMR.

            Hospitals are turning to mobile devices as a cost-effective extension of the EMRs, which make them more usable and friendly. This allows clinicians and other hospital staff to pay more attention to their patients and make more eye contact with the patients. As health reform forces hospitals and other providers to become more accountable for the care they provide, tablets may help clinicians and other hospital staff to zero in and focus on high-risk patients.

Pittman, D. (2014, Feb. 10). Hospitals use tablets as extension of EHRs. MedPage Today. Retrieved from: http://www.medpagetoday.com/Practice Management/Information Technology /44239.

-MG

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