Reflection of the December 2nd class

EMR or Electronic Medical Records are a record of a patients medical history that are stored as an electronic file. The advantage of this is that these records are easier to sort and locate then the previously used paper files. Another advantage of this is that  they can be accessed from many different locations. A disadvantage of this is that if the EMR system crashes their would be no records of any of the patients medical histories. This however, can be solved by having a backup of the files.

An issue with this would be Integrity. This is because if the data is altered doctors would then have misinformation about a patient. Security is also an issue because people could steal the information about patients and then sell it. This makes it important for Hospitals to have a high level of security such as biometrics and password protection.