International journal of medical informatics

International journal of medical informatics

One of the primary areas where I can apply EHR is in the pre-hospital care. An excellent example of pre-hospital care use of EHR is the ambulance services (Koufi, Malamateniou, & Vassilacopoulos, (2010). Here, nurses would be feeding in data and physical conditions of the patients before they reach to the hospital. In these ambulances, the role of EHR would be to ensure patient data sharing, injury /illness prevention, and designing of treatment methods. In conclusion, if nurses can effectively apply the informatic tool, they can lead to a developed health care service.

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are you stating if ambulance personnel were able to enter data in real time with a system that interfaced with the ER at the facility, it would allow the ER staff to see what is happening to the patient during transport so the ER would be ready to treat the patient upon arrival, eliminating or decreasing the need for a lengthy report? PLEASE REPLY TO THIS QUESTION