Ehr Software Tutorials

Electronic health records, or EHRs, and its associated software are becoming standard practice in patient care facilities around the globe. To support this new standard, educational and tutorial support are available to help health care professionals learn how to efficiently use the new software and tools.

Identification

• EHR software packages are available to support a variety of applications such as appointment scheduling, patient tracking, patient medicine dispensing and emergency room wait-time optimization. Each application come with tutorials to help users set up, configure, deploy and use the software.

Tutorials

• With some EHR applications, tutorials come in the form of prepackage training such as videos, CDs, booklets and online training modules. This type of training often ships with the software. For other applications, tutorials come in the form of classes taught to hospital staff members by the software vendors or by the hospital managers or administrators.

Benefits

• EHR software tutorials help health care professionals become efficient at using new software, which in turn increases overall patient care. This is especially significant in an environment where even the smallest errors can be life threatening.