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Electronic Health Records: Sensible or Not?

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EHR's (electronic health records) are the sensible option in records storage. Security measures can safely guard the information and offer many advantages not realized by the paper information systems.

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The expert determines if electronic health records are sensible or not.

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Systems who have made the transformation from paper to the electronic health record (EHR) have found that having to return to paper burdensome and extremely difficult. Once the system has become dependent on EHR, they do not know how they survived before. The difference now is the number of documents that have multiplied in the past few years that are required by either law or disciplinary agencies. When the systems go down for routine back up or a problem, the paper system takes staff much longer to create. The worst outcome is that all the ...

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