Benefits of ePCR's

Compared to paper patient call documentation, electronic patient care reports (ePCR's) offer the following benefits

• Printed, well organized reports (without markups or revisions)

• Minimize paper to track and file

• Legibility

• More professional appearance. Doctor's and ED staff like the reports

• Reports retrieval by search criteria

• Printed copies of archived reports

• Data completeness and validation

• Data required by state regulatory agencies

• Data for performance management

• Data for quality management (QA/QI)

• Flexible data entry

• Consistent data

• Field data capture

• Spell checking

• Shared data for multiple patients

• Edit status marked on reports

• It's cool!

For additional information on the benefits of electronic patient care documentation see the article in the August '08 issue of JEMS

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