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In the United States, medical information about patients traditionally has been recorded and stored on paper forms. However, there are efforts to persuade doctors to adopt electronic medical record systems in which information about patients is stored in electronic databases rather than on paper. It is argued that storing patients' medical records in electronic databases has several advantages over traditional paper-based record keeping.
Reducing Costs
First, the use of electronic records can help reduce costs by saving money on storing and transferring medical records. While paper records require a significant amount of storage space, electronic medical records take up virtually no space. Moreover, by having patients' records computerized in databases, doctors can easily access the records from almost anywhere and can easily duplicate and transfer them when necessary. This costs much less than copying, faxing, or transporting paper records from one location to another.
Preventing Errors
Second, electronic medical records are crucial to reducing the chances of medical errors. Illegible handwriting, improper transcription of data, and nonstandard organization of paper records have caused errors that in some cases have had serious consequences for the patients' health. In contrast, electronic records are associated with standardization of forms and legible computer fonts and thus minimize the possibility of human error.
Aiding Research
Third, electronic medical records can greatly aid medical research by making it possible to gather large amounts of data from patient records. It is often impractical, impossible, or prohibitively expensive to manually go through thousands of patients’ paper records housed in doctors' offices. However, with the existence of electronic medical records, it would be simple to draw out the needed information from the medical databases because the databases are already formatted for data collection. Once in the electronic system, the records could be accessed from any research location.
in the united states, medical information about patients traditionally has been records and stored on paper forms however, there are efforts to persuade doctors to adopt electronic medical record system. the several advantage about the electronic records than recording and storing on papers that had said in the passage are non certain. the first reason, the use of electronic records can not really reduce the costs because in this way also will need some pays for recording and storing. the second reason, the electronic medical records can not totally reduce the chances of medical errors. for example there will some mistakes because of poor hand writing or making some mistakes in recording and transcription data by doctors. also many of the doctors still write the notes about the patients. the third reason, the electronic records can not eliminate some problems for researchers because in this way the researchers have difficulty to access to the patient information and the patients can block the information for any one.
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