I think the greatest benefit of using EHRs in the medical office is the accuracy of the information. One of the challenges in paper records is to extract information of the patients from a handwritten report. In addition, if handwriting is illegible, there might be chances of misunderstanding, which may result in input of wrong information. Eventually may affect the safety of the patient. EHR provides various ways to document the information without using handwriting. The only obstacle I see in this benefit is that it might be time consuming for the physicians to log on to the system, find the patient’s record, input the information, and then save it to the patient’s folder.
