The Electronic Medical Record (“EMR”) Lite is the optimum solution for achieving a uniform state-wide system which makes all appropriate personal health information and medical records available and accessible to patients and to their selected health care professionals at the point of care.
The administrative benefits of EMR between providers and payers include electronic transaction cost savings, fraud prevention, etc. The consumer’s benefits include ease of information sharing during natural disasters and other public health emergencies, improving public safety, reducing medical errors, avoiding duplicative and unnecessary medical procedures, and improving coordination of care among health care professionals.
Electronic connectivity to healthcare data is generally a more efficient and less costly means of delivering quality healthcare by providing a centralized inter-operative environment accessible to healthcare providers, payers, employers, and patients.