Medical Records

Medical records should be on an electronic system because it does help diminish fraud with the insurance companies and also with doctors. Some people that are on medicaid go from doctor to doctor to furnish their drug addictions. With the medical records being electronic, the records can be pulled up wherever a person decides to go. This can help cut down on drug addictions and people taking advantage of the medical system. There are many things that can be positively accomplished with electronic medical records such as saving space and paper. It helps doctors coordinate care, it saves time not having to fax or e-mail information. There will be less mistakes made since it is no longer hand written by typed. Some of the disadvantages of the electronic medical records would be for the doctors and nurses to have to learn the system and have to use computers, when some aren't computer literate. This means that it may take longer to do which means that they may not get as many patients in per day. This is just a little bump in the road that will get better over time. Another disadvantage is that people are concerned that their medical records can be hacked into and information will get out that was meant to be kept private. But I think that all of the steps to take care of that have been followed, so I don' t think that it is really a problem. This is a good thing that will help make the medical system better in more ways than one.