Advantages Of Converting To Electronic Medical Records

When you are converting the information in paper medical records to the electronic medical records, this can make the records out of date and they can be stored offsite and they can save you the office space. You can convert everything in the paper medical record, or you could just convert the information that you need. Some things that should be known about converting the paper medical records to electronic health records is that it is the quality care and patient safety. By having this converted over, this would improve the access at anytime and anywhere of a patient’s document, reducing the duplications of any document. This also helps out with the physicians and the patients knowing their medications, allergies, and correct dosage of medicine. This also lists the diagnosis, …show more content…
Some disadvantages for paper-based medical records would be the cost of that manual medical record, the lost production from the manual medical records,