Adopting Student Health Records
By Marlene Chotkowski, CareFlow Electronic Student Health Records
In
all aspects of life, technology is advancing and continuing to dominate
our society. These technological advancements aspire to streamline our
daily tasks, while assisting with responsibilities and providing a
variety of new capabilities.
The healthcare industry is
generally one of the slowest industries to accept change and adopt these
technological innovations. Yet in the last few years, healthcare has
proven to be rapidly catching on to these developments in hospitals,
physicians' offices, and clinics, and now academic health centers are
adapting to electronic student medical records.
"Progress
is a nice word, but change is its motivator. And change has its
enemies". This is a quote from Robert Kennedy. Although change is not
always easy, there have been proven benefits to incorporating technology
into your health center environment, and especially to including
electronic student medical records within school health centers.
Nurses
that use an electronic student health records program such as CareFlow
Electronic Student Health Records, have ranked the below as some of the
tangible benefits they have seen by adopting electronic student health
records:
1. Reduction in duplication of work
2. Completion of health forms online by parents, including automated parent reminder emails
3. Manual tracking of medications administered and medication supply
4. Filling out the same information on multiple forms goes away
5. Automated reminders for immunizations and physicals
6. Documentation time is reduced
7. They have access to every student's complete information with only a few clicks
8. Emergency access to student information at their fingertips
School
administration also benefits from a significant reduction in risk and
liability and reaps additional cost benefits by eliminating the money
spent on paper and postage for the documents and labor during the summer
months.
Parents will be impressed by the
state-of-the-art technology that adds to the quality of care for their
students. In addition, they will mostly appreciate not having to fill
out the same forms year after year, saving them time and easing the
enrollment process. Plus they can access and update their child's
information at any time.
Do not get left behind! Search for the right electronic student health record program for your school today!
CareFlow Student Health Records
West Chester, PA
www.careflowemr.com
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610-422-2969