Question

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages to EHRs

Answer 1

Advantages of Electronic Health Records: EHRs and the ability to exchange health information electronically can help you provide higher quality and safer care for patients while creating tangible enhancements for your organization.

Disadvantages of Electronic Health Records: start up costs are enormous. Not only must you buy equipment to record and store patient charts (much more expensive than paper and file cabinets), but efforts must be taken to convert all charts to electronic form. Patients may be in the transitional state, where old records haven’t yet been converted