The federal government has embarked on an ambitious course to ensure that most Americans have an electronic health record  (EHR) within the next 10 years.  Although the current adoption rate is still low, EHR is increasingly viewed as a way to help achieve quality and continuity in treatment, contain costs, and fill gaps in clinical and public health data.  The adoption rate will be drastically increased over the next few years as EHR becomes a necessity rather than a nice-to-have.

As a newly demanded healthcare information system, EHR is defined in many ways by different software vendors.  Basically, EHR consists of clinical information systems that allow physicians and other healthcare professionals to:

• Monitor the health status of their patients with electronic medical charts

• Support their care decisions with evidence-based guidelines

• Expedite referrals to specialists and other care decision makers

• Computerize their ordering of prescription drugs, laboratory tests, and images

• Create, store, and retrieve patient medical records from different locations

 An EHR provides each individual with a secure and private life-time record of their key health history and care within the health care system.  To change the current situation where health records are largely paper-based and often not easily accessible to the right health care professional at the right time, FutureNet has developed its own medical dictation and patient reports-based EHR system.  FutureNet iSeries provides the capabilities for physicians and other healthcare professionals to create patient reports,  to integrate them with a patient's other hard copy or softcopy information, and to be available electronically to authorized healthcare providers and the individual anywhere, anytime in support of high quality care.

FutureNet's iSeries system is scalable and flexible for all kinds of health care organizations.  With rich system integration experience in the healthcare information management industry, FutureNet's iSeries focuses on interoperability that allows computers and software systems to seamlessly communicate with each other.  It is central to FutureNet's mission to make clinical data available across the continuum of care and across health delivery organizations and regions, promoting reusable and replicable solutions that can be aligned with jurisdictional priorities and deployed across the country more cost-efficiently.