More healthcare providers are ditching the traditional pen and clipboard, and are looking to electronic systems to house the records of their patients. Electronic medical records (EMR) offer healthcare professionals a quicker way of accessing and sharing patient information between offices and providers.

You and your patients can benefit from having an electronic medical record (EMR) software system in your clinic, healthcare facility, or hospital. It significantly helps healthcare professionals keep a more comprehensive and detailed record of all their patients’ medical information and treatment procedures.

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Medical records are generally inaccessible and hard to understand. In fact, if you were to try reading your own medical data, you might find that it’s almost as if it’s in a different language. A medical record can be riddled with cryptic phrases, acronyms and complex terms that mean nothing in the eyes of someone that didn’t study medicine for eight years.

ESPN recently reported that a laptop containing the medical records of thousands of NFL players was stolen from the car of a Washington Redskins’ trainer. And while the team released a statement saying no health information protected under HIPAA guidelines was at risk, the incident shows that EMRs are vulnerable no matter the size of your company.