The Pros And Cons Of Electronic Health Records

I luckily have not used an electronic health record for myself or for anyone in my family. I go to a private family doctor and have not any serious visits to a clinic, or hospital that would require me to access my records but I am on the other side of dispensing EMR information. As of 2012, my hospital finally caught up to the rest of the hospitals in the area and decided to go electronic with one solid EHR program that the entire hospital uses. As I have had some years becoming familiar with the multi-screens, warnings, and troubleshooting errors, I am usually the chosen worker in my department of medical records to help the physicians that have issues with the program. While there are hundreds of financially stable hospitals that do not

One would be a time and possible dislike of program for the physicians to come into medical records and complete their notations on surgeries, visits, checkups, etc. Back before my department adopted EHR, our jobs were to call repeatedly (harass) the physician to physically write operation notes in chart, due to insurance deadlines, lawyer demands, or patient

While this was the opposite as time moved forward, patients who are becoming more tech-savvy prefer the use of computer usage to store and dispense records. Physicians in the past had penmanships that could only be read by a few and would confuse lawyers, patients, and approval for insurance coverage. The pro would be that everything typed up in the EHR is of the same font, size and legible which thus made medication, insurance approval, and medicaid/medicare payments work more efficiently. There was also a fear that expert support or any medical record staff would not be available for when physicians needed assistance with EHR during late hours or during their time. This common argument among the doctors was more than likely the reason as to why there is a 24/7 EHR hotline that they can call for assistance. Ultimately most physicians that gave the new computerized system a chance realize it is more efficient than the older written system. As the February 6 issue of Patient Safety stated in the article Can electronic health records prevent harm to patients, they found that fully EHR were between 17 and 30 % less likely to have complication events for patients. Another con for EMR that would be unmentioned in the articles are the recent current events that dealt with