EHR in Nigeria
EHR is an acronym for Electronic Health Record, in simple terms, it is the storage of patient's health information on computers; this helps for easy retrieval of patients information. Modern EHR not only store patients information, it also manage the hospital workflow as the patient moves from one service point to another, track/manage patients billing information, alert physician/clinician when a patient's investigations result is posted and manages patients prescription. It's a whole web of process that is broken down into modules as per job role. The benefits of a standard EHR system are numerous in my estimation. I would list some of the well established benefits below: 1. Improve in patients turn around time(T-A-T): The architecture of an EHR is such that there is a central database which all clients system post data to and/or fetch data from. The flow of patient in a hospital is from the Reception, to the Cash point (if the patient is to make payment), to the Triage ...