Electronic Health Records Pros And Cons

RESULTS
Positive Impact:
1. Enhanced positive health results (Mastermind, 2015):
Earlier, when the healthcare system relied on the paper based medical records, the medical professionals had to request the other physicians in order to get the medical history of the patient. The physician had to wait un till the he received the patient’s medical information which in turn delayed the care. With the advent of the electronic health records, the physician can easily access to the patient’s previous health information and provide the care immediately which also eradicates the occurrence of the errors. A national survey performed by the physician reported that, the percentage of the providers who stated that the EHRs make the patient healthy records

The use of EHRs resulted in the 20% decrease in the prolonged stays at the medical center (Lisa Kern et al, 2012).
2. Improved quality of care:
The usage of electronic health records provides the access to the patient health information form inpatient and from the other remote areas. The electronic health records enable the physicians with tools such as, clinical decision support tool, clinical alerts, and other reminders. It makes the prescribing much easier and safer by reducing the chances of medical errors (Goldberg, Kuzel, DeShazo, & Love, 2012). With the help of electronic health records, the physician could improve the ability to perform the treatment more safely and early.
Electronic health records help the providers to make accurate decisions about the patient’s health and provide the care accordingly by enhancing the aggregation and analysis and communicating the patient information.
The below given histogram explains the positive impact in the care coordination and clinical decision making with fully functional

The errors related to the functionality of the software and lack of the userfriendly intercface and various limitation of the system may confuse or mislead the users (Hoffman, Sharona, & Andy, 2008). The bugs in the software may misplace, hide or remove the patient health data which may result in the serious health consequinces. The data descrepancies amy occur between the two different data fields, for example, if the data structure and the free-text fields are not consistant, this may give rise to the data descrepancies (Kannary, 2011). Clinicians progressively share control of complex procedures with computerss; in a few examples, they assume highly-elevated oversight and enable PCs to perform routine choices and complete suitable activities (e.g., the PC naturally creates a research facility when certain pharmaceuticals are requested). Despite the fact that EHR frameworks don't straightforwardly affect tolerant care without human mediation, this innovation is regularly so confounded that clients can't investigate or comprehend its calculations and in this manner human (Hoffman, Sharona, & Andy, 2008)