Electronic medical records are the medical records of the patients in a health care organization stored in a digital way, it includes the. They include information of all patients such as medical history, medications, treatment, diagnoses, and results, about all patients. Paper-based medical records are similar to electronic-based ones, but in paper form with some differences.
One important benefit of electronic medical records is the small actual space of storage roomstorage space required compared to paper medical records. Medical professionals keep paper records in large storage rooms because of their large numbers, sometimes it reachesreaching thousands or even millions of pages in one storage room. In addition, it'sThese are more vulnerable to damage and ruin in the event of natural disasters such as fire, floods, and other disasters. On the other handIn addition, electronic medical records didn’tdon’t need any storage room or warehouses, and itas they can be stored in computers and uploaded to the cloud, and we will be ableallowing us to save trees and other sourcesresources used in the paper industry.
Health care providers have to pay more money to replace paper medical records with electronic medical records systems. Per contra, paper medical records are costscost less than electronic medical records and this is considered one of the most important reasons thatwhy some health care organizations, especially small organizations, didn’t purchasehaven't yet purchased electronic medical records systems yet.