How the Coronavirus Has Changed the Way We Use EMR

As COVID-19 sweeps worldwide, we have seen a few countries exit from lockdown, while others are introducing more rigorous lockdown measures to curb the virus. We’ve also seen other countries relying on their health care systems to arrive at decisions within the social-economic and political spheres. An Electronic Medical Record is a digital version of the paper charts in a clinical office that contains the medical and treatment history of patients in a particular practice. Due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant change in using such medical records systems. In this guide, we attempt to look at how this has changed.