Building an EHR system: Definition, Benefits, Problems, and Examples

Are you spending more time finding patient information in a variety of disconnected systems than you are actually seeing your patients? In the end, does everything still boil down to a note nobody can ever read because it’s handwritten by a doctor? Oh, the dreaded paper medical records. They aren’t just difficult to read and analyze.

They also:

• Require a lot of physical storage space
• Don’t show the entire patient journey in one go
• Are impossible to recover if lost
• Can’t be in two places at once, so they aren’t always accessible to the staff who requires them
• Have limited security
• Are prone to errors
• Are usually incomplete

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