Electronic Health Record ( Emr ) - 2304 Words

Introduction Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) have become an important component of modern health care. Nowadays, more and more countries including developed countries and some developing countries have implemented EMR in hospitals or clinics to provide better care to patients. With the implementation of EMR in healthcare field, physicians are able to access patients chart, diagnosis, treatment remotely, and they are able to get alerts about criteria lab values or some potential medical errors. Canada is among the top 10 countries who adopt EMR through the country. However, compared with some European countries, there is still some way to go for Canada. Adoption rate of EMR in Canada is about 56%, while†¦show more content†¦Then I will conclude other issues that may lead to poor implementation of EMR in health organizations and what organizations can improve during the process of procurement. Finally I will mention the trend of EMR procurement nowadays. Canada s current state of adopting EMR Canada has advocated and provided enough fund for the implementation of electronic medical record across the whole country. In 2010, Canada Health Infoway received $500 million CDN; of this amount, $380 million is to be directed to office EMR adoption (Price, 2011).It shows that Canada pays a lot of attention to the adoption of EMR. However, Canada still need make efforts to increase adoption rate of EHR. From this diagram we find that there is no country which can reach 100% EMR implementation. Some of European countries, including Norway, Netherlands, United Kingdom and New Zealand have high EMR adoption rate which is almost 100 percent. And Australia has adoption rate of 92 percent, which is also a high adoption rate. In comparison, Canada’s EMR adoption rate is relatively low, with only 56% adoption rate. Many physicians or health professionals are still resistant to use EMR in Canada. According to an international comparison, less than 30% of physician in Canada use elect ronic lab review, e-prescribing or some other eHealth technology, comparing with rates of greater than 90% in the