The key to successful diet planning is keeping track of patients’ progress. Electronic medical records are essential for the relationship between patients and their doctors and help patients achieve their goals faster and easier. The EMR software allows the physician to monitor, predict and adjust patients’ diet plans and give instant access to relevant health information. It saves time and effort as the patient’s medical record is always available and ready to use with just a few mouse clicks.
Plus, EMRs save a lot of office space required to store paper files, which could be used for better purposes. Besides, electronic medical records allow doctors and patients to download the information directly onto a PDA or Palm device, which gives authorized persons access to online medical files from any location. Other exciting features include touch screen or voice recognition. Some will automatically monitor, analyze, predict and potentially prevent adverse accidents.
Also, patients can access their information at any time, by logging in the physician’s website, where they may also learn more about health programs and clinical nutrition updates. EMR software eliminates or reduces the human errors such as typos and illegibility and continually updates the medical records with the latest information available. Another plus for the electronic medical records is that it allows physicians to save time and money at the same time. Plus, the storage space would be dramatically reduced and used for better purposes. Besides, the costs, although somewhat high, can be reduced to monthly usage fees, to make the acquisition easier.
By using calorie and food tracking apps which are readily available on most smartphones these days, a patient could theoretically track every bite they take and allow their physician to analyze eating patterns in real time. This would give a clear advantage in monitoring blood sugar for diabetics or sodium intake for patients with high blood pressure.