4 WAYS TO MAINTAIN YOUR PATIENTS RECORDS EFFECTIVELY

Cracking the code to access and save the heart of medical care Medical records are arguably the lifelines of medical attention right away. Not enough for them to treat the patient properly and follow-up well, but also to ensure that documented and have a record.

These are not only a requirement of the process of paperwork; They are also legal documents and have come a long way, from being mere bundles of files in an important requirement medico legal environment.

Change the stature of patient records in the system has led to many strategies developed to ensure the monitoring and maintenance of patient records of old and new patients effectively.

Here we list for you some foolproof and effective ways to do the same to your clinic.

1. Unique clinic ID (UCID)

UCID is a numeric or alphanumeric unique code generated by the clinic management software for each new patient at the clinic. The software can be customized to generate such an ID ensuring every patient's records going forward is stored under this ID. Being a unique code, that this is not assigned to any other patient ever and this code becomes equivalent to a patient's personal locker in the software. To access records of any patient at any time regardless of how old or new patient is, all you need is the UCID rights and access and login and behold, all relevant information will be displayed on the screen.

2. Carefully integrate and completely

While the clinical management software can be customized to create a UCID for each new patient, old patient records must be integrated into the system during the software implementation. This is the reason why integration is an important factor to consider when purchasing software for the clinical management because it can not, in any way, afford to lose the medical record of your old patients. They need to be manually or otherwise digitized and saved on the server, to be read in exactly the same way as new ones.

3. Records only through EMR

Stop the physical recording option of patient records to your clinic. Registration in the software into use the EMR module of the software and with only one size of available patient records, patient monitoring, and maintenance is easy. Whether to keep doctors and EMR records manually run both parallel to each other to your clinic, patient records can not be maintained effectively and monitor or access will never be easy or complete.

4. Patient records on Cloud is better

In the battle between the servers in-house vs. cloud-based server as far as clinical and their access is concerned that cloud-based servers will win hands down. The in-house server may be down for maintenance or due to some technical problem and in the down-time, no patient records can be read or recorded; while on cloud-based servers, continuity in the detection and maintain patient records is a key feature. Using cloud-based server is a better option to effectively track and maintain patient records.

While there are many other ways to effectively manage and track patient records of old and new patients to your clinic, these 4 strategies addressing the most relevant issues - maintenance and easy access to patient records.