A strong patient-physician relationship keeps patients coming back for care and is maintained when patients know they will receive the best possible care. A quality EHR will keep your patients happy while making your hard work visible to your patients.

Online Interaction
Nowadays people are engaged in different kinds of online relationships. Just have a look at the followers of social media like Facebook, Twitter etc.

Having an EHR equipped with a patient portal allows you to build an online physician-patient relationship, which supports the personal connection that you already have.

Using the patient portal physicians can securely interact with their patients and give them access to view their lab results or set up appointments. Furthermore patient portals also let you share education material through the network.

Faster Patient Encounter

Letting the patients wait for hours or not being able to see them is sure is a killer of healthy patient-physician relationship. It gives the impression that you can’t address the needs and issues of patients.

Having a good EHR would solve this problem by speeding up the patient-physician interaction. Your EHR should be able to allow you quickly to chart patient conditions. In this way you will be able to spend more time with patients and treat them better.

Analytical Insight 

Recognizing health trends in an individual patient or a specific patient population used to be a meticulous process that consists of digging through countless patient records in order to discover patterns. Now using an EHR this type of information is available on a click of a mouse.

Enhanced Convenience 

EHRs allow patients to take control of their own health. This can take time to improve your patient-physician relationship. A feature that helps do this is an e-Prescribing. Before when you write a prescription for a patient they had to take it to the pharmacy and had to wait around to get it filled.


But now using e-Prescribing option you can send prescriptions to pharmacies electronically on a click of a button. Patient will pick up their refill at the desired pharmacy at their convenience and if they don’t the EHR informs you prompting you to send a friendly reminder to the patients to pick up their medicines.

The key to patient-physician relationship is displaying a valid interest in your patients’ health. Today EHRs make this easier than before.

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