EMR is becoming a standard of medical practice in documentation and procedure in this country (India) too. Software developers here and elsewhere flock to this country flogging their ware in more aggressive modes now than before.
The need for standardization in ease of operation and interoperability advantages are beginning to be felt here as borders between care giving organizations begin to blur in delivering optimized patient care. The shift is beginning to be realized. From hospital-centric to true patient-centric.
Challenges beckon the solutions providers in their abilities to provide timely tools with the necessary arguments that will convince as compel the treatment providers, the medication prescribers, doctors and clinicians in particular; in laying out the path to a new workflow with the patient as the focus.
As both hardwired strongroom based servers and the increasingly popular SaaS (read Cloud) hosted medical databases vie with one another for acceptance and confidence from the healthcare provider managements institutionally, yet another method of preferential filing is emerging among data managers - the possibility and elective safety afforded by a hybrid mix of local servers and the cloud.
Let us shift the scene to the doctor.
It is a worldwide phenomenon not welcomed by the info-tech solutions community. I am referring to the negative indolence shown by the treating community of not entirely embracing the available rich EMR spaces right in front of their desktop screens. Available data shows blank (read unpopulated) spaces within the EMR templates which are created just for standards compliance and interoperability advantages.
Unresolved Fears, uncertainties and doubts (FUDs) unfortunately rule the minds of the care givers even as the healthcare industry is getting into aggressive competitive modes yet battling for basic viability with bare minimum successes.
The aggressive modes just mentioned refer to the likes of the recent developments at the likes of Amrita's AHIS now being offered in handheld Android devices.
It is the onus of the info-tech solutions providers to continue to push for removing the FUDs entirely from the users' erstwhile habits. One of the methods might be to address the medical pros at their exclusive clubs and associations, haunts where informality as much as peer sensibilities exhibit themselves. In parallel, the professionals in the spectrum of EHR/EMR users must also be addressed online in C.2 modes where they can actively interact with authors.
I pause this episode with the two methods of persuasion with the hope that it will ignite more thoughts on how to move this significant paradigms off the drawing boards into the hands of the very people who will benefit by them.
The day is not far when patients equally armed with personal information, statutory rights and also general knowledge of their conditions come to engage the care giver one on one.
Ominous Hint: Higher secondary and pre secondary school classrooms where students are better armed than the teachers in Internet and its ramifications.
The need for standardization in ease of operation and interoperability advantages are beginning to be felt here as borders between care giving organizations begin to blur in delivering optimized patient care. The shift is beginning to be realized. From hospital-centric to true patient-centric.
Challenges beckon the solutions providers in their abilities to provide timely tools with the necessary arguments that will convince as compel the treatment providers, the medication prescribers, doctors and clinicians in particular; in laying out the path to a new workflow with the patient as the focus.
As both hardwired strongroom based servers and the increasingly popular SaaS (read Cloud) hosted medical databases vie with one another for acceptance and confidence from the healthcare provider managements institutionally, yet another method of preferential filing is emerging among data managers - the possibility and elective safety afforded by a hybrid mix of local servers and the cloud.
Let us shift the scene to the doctor.
It is a worldwide phenomenon not welcomed by the info-tech solutions community. I am referring to the negative indolence shown by the treating community of not entirely embracing the available rich EMR spaces right in front of their desktop screens. Available data shows blank (read unpopulated) spaces within the EMR templates which are created just for standards compliance and interoperability advantages.
Unresolved Fears, uncertainties and doubts (FUDs) unfortunately rule the minds of the care givers even as the healthcare industry is getting into aggressive competitive modes yet battling for basic viability with bare minimum successes.
The aggressive modes just mentioned refer to the likes of the recent developments at the likes of Amrita's AHIS now being offered in handheld Android devices.
It is the onus of the info-tech solutions providers to continue to push for removing the FUDs entirely from the users' erstwhile habits. One of the methods might be to address the medical pros at their exclusive clubs and associations, haunts where informality as much as peer sensibilities exhibit themselves. In parallel, the professionals in the spectrum of EHR/EMR users must also be addressed online in C.2 modes where they can actively interact with authors.
I pause this episode with the two methods of persuasion with the hope that it will ignite more thoughts on how to move this significant paradigms off the drawing boards into the hands of the very people who will benefit by them.
The day is not far when patients equally armed with personal information, statutory rights and also general knowledge of their conditions come to engage the care giver one on one.
Ominous Hint: Higher secondary and pre secondary school classrooms where students are better armed than the teachers in Internet and its ramifications.
