Workflow Cavity of Dentist Is Cemented With Electronic Medical Records (EMR)

Technological growth is an aggregative area to get noticed in this century as it becomes an important element of our day-to-day life and its operation like education, business, healthcare purpose, etc. Electronic Medical Records is an invention used to store and share information of patients and medication history in chronological order. It can be used in different devices supported by internet access. Dentist sees EMR as an efficient tool to manage their patient history. Dental healthcare organizations are using Electronic Medical Records to support their business growth and administration works.

Data Accuracy for Doctor Protection

Medical record-keeping is so common in the medical field but the errors and mishandling of records are the hallow impressions created in patients’ profile. Thousands and thousands of patients come to the dental healthcare organization every year to check their level of dental hygiene. Doctors possess the knowledge to cure dental and oral problems but remembering what specific treatment they did is so tough and anonymous. Expecting record maintenance from patients is so unprofessional as the possibility of missing a record is high.

EMR (Electronic Medical Records) helps them in a fraction of seconds to fetch patients' details and all their previous treatment and which organization involved in it. Each patient has a unique ID and it holds the complete medication history. For example, in the last visit a patient could come for tooth decay and gum disease, now giving Ecstasy and Cocaine to them could create severe damage to teeth like crack or bleeding from gums. These types of medical cross-overs can be technically avoided with virtual help.

High-Quality Storage of Dental Image Results

Existing radiographs are giving excellent quality images for all dental needs and even digital images can be stored digitally with Electronic Medical Records. At any point in time with a single click, the internal structure of teeth can be viewed. The chances are seeing them in 3-D would eventually become possible in further updates of EMR software. The spatial information including supporting bone strength and untreated dental caries periapical periodontitis, and occlusal trauma can be found.

In the year 2017, dental organizations have adopted EHR increased by over 50% adoptions because of various advantages of practice management of dentist. It helps to improve by entering all the clinical documentation, prescribed medication, and generating bills for relevant treatments. Claiming of insurance becomes easy with EMR as it has the ability to share across different healthcare organizations.