Electronic Medical Records

EMRs allow better and more efficient patient care period!
They save doctors an average of 50 minutes per day of administrative time*.

Denmarks healthcare is the most efficient in the world. Their systems save money and improve outcomes.
98% of Danish doctors use EMRs.

While South Africa has, somewhat belatedly, awoken to the advantages of electronic medical records, it is interesting to note that Bluebirds integrated EMR, was a decade and a half ahead of its time. Bluebird doctors have the benefit of the fine-tuning that comes from 15 years experience in real South African practices.

No wonder our users say:

• "It is a wonderful program.....the final result is very rewarding and it has changed my practice infinitely for the better." Dr.Hadley-Grave
• "The time saved . is significant" Dr. Christopher Lyddell
• "Extremely user-friendly. timesaving.." Dr. Paul Dalmeyer

The 4 over-riding benefits of EMRs are:

• Instant access to a patients past clinical information
• Quicker and better medical-legal documentation of the clinical encounter.
• Ongoing monitoring chronic patients
• Data mining. How many patients do you see over age 50, how many patients have been referred by a particular GP, what is your complication rate, what % of your patients have instrumental delivery etc etc

Paper records have no ability for integration or automation, they cannot be available at all times from everywhere and if you do want to extract information from them, this needs to be done manually, at great time and expense. Paper records are passive records. You cannot data mine or interrogate paper records!

It is simply not possible to do the following with paper:
Find patients with Type II Diabetes, have an HbA1c of greater than 7% and have not be seen in the last 6 months.
It should be clear that an EMR can greatly improve patient care

BBBB doctors also get the following with their EMR:

• Automated off-site back up. No longer do you have the headache of ensuring your back ups are happening.
• Remote access
• Comprehensive monitoring of your Server and back-ups
• Integrated messaging 

* 2006 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey