Disadvantages of Paper Medical Records and Benefits of EHR

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Disadvantages of keeping paper medical health records.................................................................2
Quality improvement is required in the area of paper based health records and it evidences.........3
Evidence based practice and the benefits of EMR, EHR over paper based records........................4
Implementation of the EHR and EMR into the hospital organization.............................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
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Introduction
Medical health records are the basic part of the duties of the doctor when providing
patient care. The different types of the medical records that are required to be kept as records for
the patients are the printouts from the medical equipment, audio and video recording,
photographs, X-ray films, laboratory results, verbal correspondence between the patient and the
doctor, test messages, consent forms, scanned records, medical records included in the emails,
and the handwritten clinical notes. Therefore, it is important to note that the physicians, nurses
and the other health care professionals often have to face the burden of keeping of lot of physical
medical records in a proper way and this takes a lot of time to be executed in a proper way. Due
to this, Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR) will be
implemented into the system so as to reduce any kind of errors emanating from handling of
medical records. In this study, the EHR implementation will be conducted through the evidence
based practice it will be applied through the road to evidence based practice process (Crowley et
al., 2019).
Overview of the problem and the setting in which the problem or issue occurs
There are lot of disadvantage that are associated with handling the paper medical records:
Duplication of the paper documents is comparatively pricy with respect to the digital duplication;
Duplication means that the medical record assigned to the patient is more than a single medical
record; Space important to mention that the paper records take a lot of storage space and a large
warehouse is needed which is filled with countless documents; Searching a large number of
records that will be difficult to understand, read and heavy, physically cumbersome to move
through the specific information; unavailability is important to note that a paper can be used only
one task at a time; Several studies have highlighted that 30 percent of the paper records are not