Modern innovative technologies in healthcare have lead to consistent changes taking place in the healthcare industry and in the way healthcare professionals provide care. Since care providers are not experts in technology or in using new technologies, they are usually overwhelmed when it comes to the implementation of Electronic Medical Records software (EMRs). Care providers are certainly faced with terms and phrases that they are not aware of when a vendor or any stakeholder is providing training on new technologies or concepts such as Patient Portals or Clinical Decision Support.
The ideal solution to resolve this issue is to create basic templates which include all the required information and definitions of words which are new to the doctors i.e. a glossary. This template should be distributed before the next training is to take place so that everybody involved is educated on the matter. Also, it would help the doctors if all the jargon and abbreviations are changed to simple and easy-to-understand words for future reference. This might actually help the doctors in becoming familiar with the changes quickly – ensuring higher productivity in the future.
If the EMR software had the ability to search for items in their records that would really make things easier for doctors and save their time. Most of the time, doctors have to navigate through a score of pages on the EMR software to find out if the patient was ever on a specific medication or drug. If the EMR has an internal search which would sort through all patient information, then that would solve this problem and the doctor would be easily able to search for specific search queries.

Overall, if an Electronic Medical Record is simple to use and understand, then care providers would be able to save a lot of time, cost and effort, which is what they need to realize for them to whole heartedly start using EMRs.
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