An electronic health record is an electronic version of a patient’s medical information that can aid medical professions in learning about a person’s health history and can be accessed by other healthcare professionals (Reynolds 312). I believe one of the greatest values to this form of record is less paperwork and easier access for everyone in the medical profession. In addition, this also provides vital information to a doctor when a patient may not be able to answer questions about previous allergies or procedures (Reynolds 311). Some of the disadvantage to moving to electronic health records is the costs associated with training the staff, additional software, storage, network security, and migrating records from paper to
