Best Practices of EHR SoftwareKNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE MEANINGFUL USE OF EHR SOFTWARE IS CHALLENGING WHEN A MAJORITY OF THE WORKERS ARE USING THIS SYSTEM FIRST TIME

Introduction

Electronic Health Record software is to challenging the system of your health care solution, when you are converting health record system from paper based to the electronic one.

Understanding of electronic health record system is always a challenging task.

The complete adoption and implementation of EHR system in your practices do not take up to more than few months

Some best ways for the implementation of

EHR Involvement of the staff

Your whole staff must know about the meaningful use of EHR system

They also must know about the importance of meaningful use of EHR software

They must know about the performance with the EHR system individually

Certified EHR usage

Assured that your EHR is certified Your Electronic health record system must be

updated every time Patient’s documentations must be completed Make sure about the information of EHR

system, it must not be copy and paste

Proper trainings of your staff

Training of your staff is mandatory for the perfect implementation of EHR system

Arrange short sessions occasionally Make sure about following the planned

procedure

Education of your patients

Education about the EHR system is also important for the patients

They must know about the usage and reason behind the implementation of EHR software

They must have some reading material about the information of EHR software

Security of patient’s health record

EHR software must be secured by strong password Encrypt your data before sharing Remote access to your network must not be allowed Provide unique user ID to every patient Patient’s confidential and private data must not be

shared on social networking sites Access of former’s employee must be forbidden

Future problems prevention

Gathering of information from the stakeholders to know the reason of the failure of EHR system

Make sure that this information must be used in positive manner

You must allow for enough storage and the right for proper usage

Make your computers fast and updated for the quickly access

Stage Timeline For The Meaningful Use

Meaningful use of stage timeline and its development must be updated

Keep checking the progress of meaningful use of EHR system on regular basis

Duplicate information must be removed

Duplicate or copied patient’s information must be minimized

Must follow the rules for security of health system of patients

Make sure that you have not copied the data