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How My Health Records Can Keep You Out of Trouble

Each time your patients come for a consultation, you examine them and take some notes in medical records. Giving paper records is not useful anymore. Many health care providers generate clinical summary and send as electronic records. Patients can see it in My Health Records as a separate webpage by your approval.<br>

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How My Health Records Can Keep You Out of Trouble

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  1. How My Health Records Can Keep You Out of Trouble Each time your patients come for a consultation, you examine them and take some notes in medical records. Giving paper records is not useful anymore. Many health care providers generate clinical summary and send as electronic records. Patients can see it in My Health Records as a separate webpage by your approval. Among 170M clinical documents generated by physicians, pathologists, and radiologists, 392K documents were uploaded by patients. Just think how useful it would be for GPs to get support and involvement from their patients. My Health Records make it easier for all your medical care providers to see the same information. Sudden your patient visits a dermatologist and is ready to write a prescription but they need to check if any other doctors have given you medicines that might give bad effects. My Health Records can keep you out of trouble by acting as a central record for reference. At some point, you'll need the information in an instant. Maybe your superior college can ask for immunizations details or a new job might demand medical records to see how medically the candidate is fit for the role. For new insurance renewal, you need exact dates of hospital stay and you don’t remember as it happened in the range, 2010-2015. Certain insurance providers would demand full medical records or particular reports to abide by company policy. Which information do you want? Specific X-ray films, blood work results, etc.? How do you want your patients to get the information when they need it?Do you want them to call and come for document collection? Or do you ask your patients to download their copies? Surely, the best possible way, is to make your patients get any documents without any involvement of you. Creating a source, My Health Records, for patients is a must so you can focus on new tasks than being distracted by minor works. Patients can be educated on how to use My Health Records by medical staff. This makes your patients take charge of their medical care. It supports them to know what's there in medical records, how to get records when they need them, who is allowed to see them, and what HIPPA laws keep them private.

  2. Complete and well-organized medical records are essential for good medical practice and help the physicians to give treatments to any patient with continuity of care. It is can be evidential for a healthcare professional as a defence against a claim or complaint. Proper record maintaining is recognized as an important element for professionalism. With the best practice, risks can be reduced. Clear communication is made between professionals, and patients get benefitted anytime, anywhere through a right source –My Health Records. This can keep you out of trouble and helps to increase productivity.

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