Question

How does an EHR support personalized community connected care for individual residents living in a long term care facility

Answer 1

Adoption of Electronic Health Record system in health and social care has found new breakthrough in promoting better and effective services and care. Electronic health record system provides the opportunity for better communication, offer care and treatment in long term facilities. The trends are extending to build widespread development of the EHR services in health care long term facilities to enhance the health information exchange. The health information management professionals have qualification and eligibility to provide long term care facilities including workflow analysis, training, implementation, selection, system development and maintenance. The long term care patient require consumer centric care and transparency, transition to use of electronic health records need cultural change in long term facilities.

It is seen that one professional holds a part of health record of the patient and providing integrated record of the patient would be tedious job to gather all the pieces of information. Thus, use of EHR helps in managing the health records and providing compiled information of every resident in long term care.

The benefits of EHR in long term care facility include-

reduced medication errors, improved clinical documentation and informed decision making, easy health information compilation and exchange and higher confidentiality.

EHR helps the personalized community care system to be compiled and integrated for every patient to provide better compilation of their information and easy access and exchange.