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SCENARIO E: My practice has EMR X, another practice in our community
uses EMR Y, and yet another practice uses EMR Z
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pregnant woman actually belongs to an entire healthcare community not
just one practice. Ideally, she will only be seen by one physician
at the only practice in town with one EMR system at only one office and
she will deliver at only one birth center. In reality, a woman may be
managed by covering physicians who may have different EMR systems or no
systems at all, and she may unfortunately end up at the "wrong"
hospital, either in the ER or birth center. With practices
all using different systems for obstetric care, it is quite easy to imagine
loss of clincally relevant information during the handoff from one provider
to another.
And for those providers at various healthcare facilities in a community,
dealing with a cacophony of different EMR systems used by different practices
throughout the community can only lead to confusion and difficulty in
quickly locating key information when a patient presents. This is the
same confusion, only amplified by several degrees of magnitude, that exists
today in many communities where providers can each choose to use different
paper prenatal records, rather than the entire community deciding to use
the same paper prenatal record. In that prenatal record free-for-all,
it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for other stakeholders in
patient care to collect and collate statistical information or outcomes
for quality assessment. Providers who are selfishly satisfied with their
choice of EMR systems but oblivious to the needs of the community only
exacerbate and contribute to the information confusion.
eNATAL is the ideal solution for a community of providers, regardless
of what EMR systems they use in their own practices, to optimally convey
information from one obstetric provider to another with just one user-interface
to learn. If a community is so enlightened to sponsor the use of eNATAL
throughout the community, information can be collected into one database
repository to facilitate research and quality assessment. Read about our
eNATAL Community Prenatal Care
package of professional services.
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