Healthcare’s Digital Evolution: Transforming Patient Care with Your EHR

This article will explore how digital records have improved the quality of patient care and the ways in which EHRs are continuing to evolve. We will also discuss how HCTec is helping hospitals, clinics, and other medical facilities improve patient outcomes and reduce costs through EHR upgrades.Unless you were in the medical profession before the turn of the century, you may not have ever worked in an office or clinic without an electronic medical records (EMR) system. While these systems existed before the year 2000, at that time, many offices still utilized physical filing cabinets filled with patient folders. Even offices that digitally stored patient information would either print patient records or transfer them to a portable storage unit like a disc or CD-ROM.As the prices for computer hardware and storage decreased, the cost efficiencies of digital health records became attractive for administrators. Computer storage became the norm, and several companies began developing secure software that allowed healthcare providers to transfer data to one another electronically.