A picture of how Electronic Health Record (EHR) is being an agent of technological revolution in digital public health systems.
Brazil is beginning to implement Digital Health in its public health services, and in this way thanks to technology, the country seeks to improve the quality in the services it provides to the people.
For this reason, a member of the health sector held a retrospective that portrays the Brazil’s relationship with digital health systems, specifically EHR.
The main topic was how relevant patient information is collected to have a clearer map of their medical process. Technology offers five certainties to the clinical decision: it brings the right information, for the right person, in the right format, by the right channel and at the right time.
Thanks to these advances, the ability to determine a accurate and comprehensive diagnosis is more achievable because they can collect multiple documents, images and detailed information on a single platform that allows the professional to find the most viable treatments without the need to waste time repeating the requested information.
What concerns EHR most is to prioritize the patient's experience since before medical procedures focused their energy more only on results (which were not always the most effective) than on patient comfort. It is now within reach to be able to follow up outside of hospitals where the initial diagnosis is made with more agile and flexible treatments, as the connectivity and synchronization of all the information collected will be available faster and on a single click.
This facilitates the steps that patients and doctors had to take to schedule an appointment. With electronic medical history, the users have the ability to accelerate hospital operations because they don't get stuck in waiting for single-case results and it is used to be multifunctional in the guidance given to users who are now better organized.
While software needs people and constant updates, they also allow comparison with similar cases to choose the most appropriate treatment. This is known as Case Base Reasoning; the system navigates other sites and spaces until they find similarities and complete previously tested and cloud-registered action paths to be available to everyone at any time.
In particular, the decisions taken by the specialists will become immediate and with this it is hoped to significantly reduce levels of inefficiency.
In conclusion, technology progress to optimize the management of clinical information has to cause a positive effect in both patients and physicians. And it is mostly about continuing to work on the progress that has already been made.
According to a study conducted by the Liga Ventures, Brazil registered 250 new technology companies in the middle of 2019 alone, so they expect a 27.9% increase in digital health by 2024.
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