Electronic Health Records For Dummies

Part IV: Optimizing and Improving Your EHR

Part IV focuses on making the most of your EHR experience. After all, the whole point of the EHR is to make life in your office or clinic flow more smoothly. Here, you get some ideas about using the EHR to your patients’ advantage and setting the EHR up to manage individuals and patient groups. You read about how you can set up patient-specific communication tools, such as alerts, messages, and personalized e-mail. Finally, you can use some of the suggestions in the final chapter of this section to tweak and improve the performance of your EHR over time.