EMR standards---facts and figures
Although most of the Medical and healthcare companies maintain international standardsfor using electronic signatures when using EMR, knowing about them is imperative and itis important to know the national and international standards that are associated withthem.And when it comes to American Bar Association, an electronic signature is "A signatureauthenticates writing by identifying the signer with the signed document”. And as thecase it should be, when the signer makes changes to his sign, the writing is attributed toThe signer and is recorded in the electronic equipment.EMR systems are flexible and the data in them can be read through variety of ways. Notthe case that only a workstation is required for retrieving a patient’s records, also, it isalso possible to various settings allow us to feed and take data based on the systemsavailable and the healthcare settings. Also, new generation technologies allow EMR dataaccessible through mobile and other handwriting devices. There are few EMR systems that automatically monitor all the clinical cases by analyzing patient data. The EMR systems then predict the adverse cases that can happen using thatdata. The detections can be anything ranging from discharging the patient, transferringthe patients, changing the pharmacy orders, radiology and other laboratory test resultsand all the other auxiliary data for noting down everything.There are many healthcare agencies around the world that do research on EMR systems,some research areas include:
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Finding out new ways to transfer EMR data
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Carving out ways to transfer one practice data to another
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Find out how the EMR systems can be integrated across the worldThere are few standards available for use in the modern day when it comes to EMR systems. Few of them widely used are:
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XML
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HL7
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ANSI X12
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CEN
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CEN - EHRcom (EN 13606)
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