Ambulatory EHRs Advantages Outnumbering Disadvantages

The technology of ambulatory EHR is getting popular with every passing day in the healthcare industry. Majority of the hospitals are making use of these EHRs for improving the quality of care and supporting the performance of their staff, as it is associated with risk assessment and patient care. This also helps the patients in staying compliant with CMS regulatory programs.

How Ambulatory EHR Helps in Improving Patient Care?

They are digital patient chart systems allowing doctors to document patient care in the same. These systems are based on the longitudinal patient care, such as chronic care management. They comprise of the data from hospitals. Ambulatory EHR systems emphasize on diagnosing, delivering speciality referrals, writing prescriptions, and recording interactions with the patients.

How are Ambulatory EHR Systems Implemented?

These systems make it much faster and easier for the people for processing a patient for medical appointment or an emergency care. Since the files are more adaptable, nearly any medical staff can assess the apt medical records.

With the ease of using and the portability level will share the systems with pharmacies, labs, imaging centers, medical facilities and healthcare providers. So, it helps the people to save a lot of time and money, while streamlining the whole procedure of EHR sharing, even as it is related to medical billing and patient care.

What are Advantages of EHRs?

• Patient care and consequences significantly advance with the emphasis on patient safety with the help of clinical decision support.

• Documentation is complete and clear with the results of medical imaging and test outcomes.

• Automation decreases variation and errors.

• Supposedly, the costs associated with treatment of a patient lowered by lessening duplicate activities.

Almost everything in this world has a flip side as well, where there are a lot of advantages of EHRs, there are a few disadvantages as well.

• Computer systems are quite complex and expensive.

• Complexity of the systems and  the learning curve of caregivers will lower clinical productivity, particularly at the beginning of implementation.

• Privacy of the patients is continuously a substantial concern.

Career Prospects for EHR Professionals

With the EHR systems becoming popular in the healthcare industry, there are numerous possibilities for the people in this field. With the expansion of this field, there are various jobs for professionals.

Clinical and caregiver careers, such as patient-care specialists, nurses, physician assistants and doctors. Non-clinical resource requirements would comprise billing and collections, data and quality management, admissions, and more. Lastly, there is a requirement for IT professionals, with skills in system applications and procedures, data and analytics, and business procedures.

With ever-changing healthcare sector and numerous benefits associated with the same, the demand will reach a value of USD 9,642.9 million by 2030.

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Requirement for Reducing Overall Healthcare Cost Driving Ambulatory EHR Market

In 2016, the global ambulatory electronic health record market reached $4.0 billion and is projected to grow at a 5.9% CAGR during the forecast period (2017–2023). The market is registering growth due to the rising usage of EHR solutions, adoption of healthcare intranet technologies (HCIT) and increasing government initiatives, and need for reducing the overall healthcare cost. The electronically stored medical records of patients, which include information about medical care and surgeries that do not require the patient to be admitted in a hospital or non-hospital settings, are called ambulatory EHR.

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In terms of application, the ambulatory EHR market is divided into patient management, referral management, decision support, e-prescribing, practice management, population health management, and health analytics. Among these, the practice management application occupied the largest share of the market during the historical period (2013–2016) and is projected to retain its position during the forecast period. This is due to the several advantages of EHR implementation, such as increased efficiency of day-to-day operations of healthcare practices. E-prescribing is predicted to grow at the fastest pace during the forecast period.

Another factor driving the ambulatory EHR market is the surging need for reducing overall healthcare cost. The shift from traditional data record systems to ambulatory EHR records decreases the cost associated with storing the data. While before the data stored on paper required a lot of care while handling it, now with the introduction of ambulatory EHR, the data can be electronically stored with ease. As per the data published by the University of New Mexico Hospital, the hospital saved over $200,000 annually due to reduced overtime and healthcare cost.

The emergence of cloud-based ambulatory EHR solutions is opening up wide opportunities for the players operating in the ambulatory EHR market. Because of the advent of cloud-based ambulatory EHR solutions, it is possible to keep data secure, safe, and fully accessible regardless of network traffic or time. In addition to this, cloud-based solutions demand fewer IT resources, update automatically, take up less space, and require less capital, which results in cost savings for clinics without needing extra time and more staff members for supporting bulky hardware installations.  

Hence, the market is growing due to the rising need for decreasing overall healthcare cost and increasing adoption of HCIT.

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