Question

1) what are the similarities and differences between inpatient and ambulatory records? Why do the differences exist?

Answer 1

Ans) Inpatient and outpatient facilities both have unique challenges when it comes to adopting electronic health records. With outpatient facilities, patients are typically being seen at a number of clinics, labs, etc., so your EHR has to be able to pull up all that information, whereas an inpatient facility has to be able to integrate with different departments within a single hospital.

At times, patients are given the option as to which treatment they choose, typically for rehabilitation-related treatments. Outpatient tends to be more common and is usually the preferred treatment method chosen by patients for a number of reasons, including comfortability as well as lower costs. This is one of the reasons why ambulatory EHR is expected to have a 5.8 percent market-growth rate over the next two years.