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The need for a high security for Medical Records is very critical given the context of the internet and its abuse, HIPAA provides laws that need to be implemented as part of any EMR or EHR solution. Innovating security of patient record and its interface to the entire eco system of Health Care providers like Labs, insurance, pharmacies, other providers etc is very critical and complex.

Hence it becomes imperative that EMR/EHR solution vendor or technology consultants are chosen based on their technology experience in providing enterprise solutions, their understanding of the HIPAA requirements and domain competence.

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The pharmacy Industry has entered the “enterprise era” of electronic technologies for clinical development. Virtually all their clinical trials use electronic data capture (EDC). As Electronic medical records (EMR) become more prevalent in offices, Clinics and hospitals; clinical sites and sponsors work towards integrating the collection of Clinical trials and EMR data.

There are two ways in which this can be done:

Via Database Transfer

From each site, the data from an EMR is extracted and transferred to a clinical trial data base. Since this method involves the mapping of database from one system to the other, sites have to first agree to share their data with the central database created for the clinical trial. Privacy issues of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) also create challenges making this a very unlikely approach.

Via Content Labeling

This is the preferred method, the transfer of data through a shared data content labeling standard is used for this method. The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) has developed standards for data interchange and archiving. Using a transactional approach, data would flow from the EMR into an electronic data capture (EDC) system, or vice versa by using either the CDISC or HL7 standards.

The EMR is a highly flexible system designed to accommodate the collection of data from patients with virtually any health problem, at any time. In contrast to this a clinical trial data collection is more highly structured because its intent is to capture specific information, for a specific purpose, at specific times.

Since a clinical trial system may encompass a number of EMR systems but can only be connected to only one clinical trial data system, its more easier, if the data flows from the clinical trial data system (collected by EDC) into the EMR. If the flow of data were in the opposite direction, then each EMR system would require built-in case report forms and the capability to transmit the data to a suitable location in the clinical trial data system.

The Road Ahead

Eventually Electronic submission requirements for clinical trials data will become so pervasive that they will create a competitive threat for companies whoose enterprise technology does not met the challenge.

With years of experience in successfully providing Custom Healthcare Software Development solutions for clients across the globe, we at Binary Spectrum have honed our processes and skills to cater to your specific business needs. Contact us for more information on clinical trial solutions.

Prakash TC. is a Support Manager at Binary spectrum

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Choosing The Right Electronic Medical Records Solutions for your Practice.

With hundreds of EMR applications available in the Market, Practices and Medical Practitioners face the unenviable task of selecting a system that will exactly match their requirements. No two practices are identical, so choosing an “off the shelf” EMR application will introduce costly shortcomings in the effectiveness of its use.Almost all practices use some type of EMR application and Practice management Solution. Most Vendors provide complete solutions that are actually well interfaced individual applications. These have their own data bases and data communication is via interfaces. This has been the cause of widespread concern because duplicity of the data entered and the chances of incorrect or forgotten details occurring. Savvy vendors tightly integrate the two there by ensuring that you get the benefit of the seamless work flow.

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Preventive Health Care is the key given the drive to bring down the raising health care, Insurance payers are more focused than ever towards paying incentives to providers and plan holders to pay more attention towards direction.

Given this it is important for Health Care vendors or technology providers to provide workflows and alerts in the software to enhance and innovate ways through which preventive health care is driving the care.

To make this happen the EMR or to be precise the charting process needs to see how it could tie the family and social history of the medical record of a patient to alert the physician potentially about the possible preventive measures like diet, tests that the patient must go through to well ahead of time to avoid potential risks.

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E-Prescribing is an electronic way to generate prescriptions through an automated data-entry process utilizing e-prescribing software or an EMR and a transmission network which links to participating pharmacies. E-Prescribing has been described as the solution to improve patient safety and reducing medication costs. It is estimated that approximately 7,000 deaths occur each year in the US due to medication errors. These errors are mainly due to hand-writing illegibility, wrong dosing, missed drug-drug or drug-allergy reactions. With approximately 3 billion prescriptions written annually, which constitutes of the largest paper-based processes in the US, the writing or prescriptions can be streamlined and efficient by using an e-prescribing system.
Benefits of E-Prescribing:

• Improved patient safety and overall quality of care
• Reduces or eliminates phone calls and call-backs to pharmacies
• Eliminates faxes to pharmacies
• Streamlines the refill’s requests and authorization processesIncreases patient compliance
• Improves Formulary adherence
• Increases patient convenience by reducing patient trips to the pharmacy and reducing wait times
• Offers true Provider Mobility
• Improves reporting ability

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