What are the benefits of the EPR to health care providers?
• Having the tools at their fingertips to make critical decisions; • Providing quick, universal, seamless access to appropriate patient data; • Creating one comprehensive system for accessing patient information; • Providing more information for interdisciplinary care; • Enabling simultaneous access to the same electronic chart by multiple providers; • Minimizing manual documentation; and, • Changing and improving how care is provided. Back to Top How will the EPR benefit patients? The EPR reduces the need for repetitive questions for patients and families and improves access to information needed for critical decisions. Faster access to a patient’s medical information promotes better health care services by assuring timely access to vital information and decreasing test duplication and errors. Back to Top Who can access the files? Only registered users in the health care field will have access to the EPR. Back to Top How will patient privacy be protected? Click here for link to Privac
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