hospitals
Electronic medical record ( EMR ) systems enable hospitals to store and retrieve detailed patient information to be used by healthcare providers across care settings . Embedded clinical decision support and other tools have the potential to help clinicians provide safer , more effective care than by relying on memory and paper-based systems . EMRs allow clinicians to track data over time , easily identify which patients are due for preventive screenings or checkups , check how patients are doing on certain parameters and monitor and improve the overall quality of care within a practice .
As the percentage of providers
8 September 2014