Times are changing. Paper medical records are fast becoming relics of the past, and computers and electronic file storage are the wave of the future.
Jeffrey D. Weinstock, an attorney practicing health care and corporate law, identifies how this automation affects you.
Advantages:
- less paperwork
- reduced updating and filing time
- easier and more timely access to patient records
- links to computerized diagnostic systems and decision support tools
- easier data access for cost accounting and analysis.
Disadvantages:
- increased cost for hardware and software
- need for staff and physicians to learn new technology
- scanning computer screens is not always as easy or as quick as scanning pages in a chart
- security concerns
- likelihood that current technology will be outdated soon and require a new, large economic outlay.
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