EHR is an electronic health
recorder is a digital version of patients paper chart
.
Advantages
- Can provide better manage care for patient and provide better
health care
- Record systematically
- Efficient for work
- Data for further research
- Convenient for checking record
- Drug safety
- Reduce duplicated medical test
- Convenient for accessing record
- Time saving
Disadvantages
- Potential privacy and security issues
- EHR system are vulnerable to hacking
- Temporary loss of productivity associated with EHR
adoption
- Inaccurate patient information due to periodic and not really
time update
- Training is time consuming
- Staff resistance