Electronic medical records (EMR’s) have been in use for many years. In the United States, the general goal is to provide more accurate and easier access to patients’ health history. Government regulations over the past decade have been moving healthcare providers towards using EMR’s that will offer inner-operability with each other to make accessing patients’ info even easier, no matter where a person may be. There are great benefits to this technology. The example I often use to explain this to people is that of someone who has just been taken to an emergency room; they are unconscious and cannot tell the doctors about allergies they may have to medications or chronic illnesses they may have that would affect the decision making process for …show more content…
EMR’s are only as accurate as the humans inputting the information. Also, EMR’s have brought a new skill set into healthcare by forcing doctors to not only be experts in medicine, but also in software operations. As someone who has trained doctors to use EMR’s for the last 6 years, I can say unequivocally that just because someone is a highly trained physician does not automatically mean they are comfortable with computers. Also, there are security concerns. Privacy laws in the U.S. are very strict, but computer systems can get hacked, they can acquire viruses and information can be compromised. In my viewpoint, however, the benefits of an EMR far outweigh the risks. Healthcare providers can be trained and security technology is always evolving to adapt to new …show more content…
One of the most common methods used to measure the degree of protectionism in the economy is to look at the country's average tariff rate. Tariffs act as barriers and serve to reduce imports of foreign products thereby protecting domestic industry that would otherwise have to compete with imported goods. Tariffs used to be the most common trade policy tool, but with the expansion of liberalization (which implies the lowering of tariff barriers); many countries began to use non-tariffs