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Record-keeping for patient data

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If we learned anything from Hurricane Katrina and its impact on the city of Joplin, it's that paper records are susceptible to loss en masse. Can you imagine having 50,000 paper records blown for miles across Joplin and trying to reconstruct those records later - much less the HIPAA privacy issues? What are your thoughts?

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This solution discusses the importance of maintaining both electronic and paper records for patient data.

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Dear Student,

I agree with most of your statements. However, we still need to have data in paper format for many reasons.

It is a necessary evil. One cannot get away from that. I totally agree that the above situation would not have happened if data had been ...

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