The Health e-MedRecord

Emergency Medicine News spoke with Carlo Reyes, MD, JD, the vice chief of staff and the assistant medical director of emergency medicine at Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks, CA, and the founder and CEO of Health e-MedRecord, a patient-centered and emergency physician-designed EMR solution. He discussed the difference between his EMR and every other product available, the emphasis on patient involvement, and how his product is HIPAA-secure. Below is an abbreviated transcript of the interview. Read Dr. Reyes’ past columns at http://bit.ly/ReyesAtYourDefense.     Why is the Health e-MedRecord different from every other EMR? Probably the most important difference of HEMR is that this is a company that was founded by doctors and for the purposes specifically of realizing the potential of what an electronic medical record was intended to do, which was to make doctors and providers and nurses more efficient in delivering high-quality patient care. You know, I’ve been practicing emergency medicine and pediatrics for 12 years now, and as electronic medical records unfolded in the context of meaningful use and all these requirements, it’s actually made us less efficient. It makes no sense to me.           It’s really a company that focuses on the needs of the providers that actually deliver the care with the purpose of improving workflows and efficiencies that really takes advantages of the technology of today. A lot of the health records that I use are ...
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