Question

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of implementing electronic health record systems into health organizations. How has health organizations benefited from implementation? What should health organizations be careful about when implementing these information systems?

Answer 1

Advantages of EHR

• Easier access to clinical data
• No bulky paper records to store,manage and retrieve
• Has the ability to gather patient data and analyse it
• Increases the opportunity to work together with the affiliated hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies
• Reduced medical errors
• Increases patients safety
• Helps in making strong clinical decision
• To maintain effective and better work flow
• Disadvantages of EHR

• Privacy risks
• Patients still feeling secure with paper works
• Increases number of doctors visits
• Expensive

The health organisation has benefited in many ways it made physicians to diagnose, treat , patients effectively avoiding medical errors.

Document can be retrieved any time and in any number

Helps in researches

It is interconnected with the entire hospital for an inpatient treatment.

Ambulatory EHR are simpler and easier ,Physicians gets patients data in single dash board.

The health organisations should be very careful about maintaining high standards in protectecting patients privacy which is maintained on electronic basis

Monitoring cyber crime against stealing medical records illegally