The physician has their advantages as well as their disadvantages with the EMR. The advantages are that the EMR can reduce medication errors and the information is organized. The EMR has a memory that records every test that the patient has done and alerts the physician. With the computer based medical records staffing needs can be reduced because of what all the EMR can do. Paper medical records had an issue with legibility but with the EMR everything is typed out making is legible. The EMR requires less storage, everything is on the computer’s hard drive, where as with paper medical records need to be stored in a secure room and depending on the size of the clinical that could be a lot of papers. Physcians have the ability to access the EMR
