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Are you looking to be an EMR specialist? Here is all you need to know.

An electronic medical record is the organized collection of patient population in digital form. The consultant who actually handles optimization of such digital clinical records is popularly known as the EMR specialist.

Dr. Joshua Baron MD, Chicago, is and EMR optimization and documentation consultant at Great Lakes Informatics, Inc.

An EMR specialist should also have sound knowledge about the recording and usage of health information and should also be able to recommend solutions to meet the varied goals of the clinical business systems.

An EMR specialist should express dedication towards delivering a safe and secure clinical care and clinical information deliveries and should continue to maintain such information with delicacy and high integrity.

The foremost responsibilities of an EMR optimization consultant include installing the software, testing, implementing, evaluation and also maintaining with utmost care all the health information he owns of the varied patients. He is also responsible in attaining coordination with the physicians on one hand and the end users of the EMR system on the hand. The ability to work under rigorous pressure and in after and before the stipulated work hours make them unique and highly reliable.

EMR optimization consultants not just document the clinical workflows, but also execute why-why analysis and performance analysis as part of arresting concerns. They also identify the need for process changes and extend their responsibility in developing future workflows as part of any version update or functionality upgrade.

Dr. Joshua Baron has rich experience as an EMR specialist with Epic. Joshua Baron also bags several years of end user experience with Cerner, by way of utilizing Zynx in building order sets.

During his working tenure, Dr. Joshua Baron also reported and resolved a number of technical issues regards to EMR optimization.

Expressing a keen interest towards pediatrics, Dr. Joshua Baron also conducted several clinical studies in the area of child neurology and pediatric epilepsy.

During his tenure, Dr. Joshua Baron also educated patients, parents, residents and a number of other medical student.

Responsibilities of EMR optimization consultant include, but are not limited to the following.

1.       The consultant should necessarily hail from a clinical background of industry association.

2.       Should have an extensive knowledge about recording the health information in electronic form.

3.       Should train and support the users of the application.

4.       Should be available round the clock as part of his support functionality role.

5.       Build a communication bridge between hospitals and patients.

6.       Maintain integrity of the clinical information captured.

7.       Retrieve the right information in the need of hour and inform the right stakeholder, as necessary.

8.       Support end to end process of the clinical workflow.

9.       Identify and align the best practices being followed by self and competitors.

10.   Showcase advanced processes knowledge to the facility departments, as per the demand.

11.   Maintain information in an organized manner.

12.   Suggest changes and ideas for improvement.

13.   Ensure to give out the best at the lowest possible cost.

14.   Communicate changes to all the personnel concerned, from hospitals, physicians, nurses, to end users.

15.   Organize and facilitate for team meetings, project meetings, feedback meetings when requested.

16.   Plan, coordinate and customize special projects as per the hospitals methodologies.

17.   Proactively identify probable failures and communicate to the needy.

18.   Update clinical information, as per the sequence of treatments patients undergo.

19.   Generate reports and publish as per the predefined frequency to the required staff.

20.   Conduct and review audits and reports and post recommendations to the clinical informatics manager and other development teams as suggested by the manager.