Electronic Health Care System

This is a system developed to collect, store records of patients and can therefore facilitate sharing of patient data across the health care facilities.

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ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEM.

This is a system developed to collect, store records of patients and can therefore facilitate sharing of patient data across the health care facilities.

Advantages of health record system.

It provides quick access to patient records.

The system provides all records of all clients that are using the services of the health institution.

Patient data is kept secure.

Only authorized medical personnel are allowed access into the system and therefore records and patient data is safe from unauthorized individuals.

Information provided by the system is up to date and accurate.

The patient information presented on the system is accurate and shows all activities such as prescriptions that the patient received.

Health record system reduce the costs incurred.

Services that were offered by the manual system such as paper work have been eliminated by the implementation of the electronic health record system and as a result reduced costs incurred by the health institution.

Information between the patients and medical staff can be shared through a secure process.
Patients are able to make appointments from their own homes or at their own comfort without having to travel to the health institution since all they need to do is to log in into the system to access the services.
The system is error free.

It is designed in a way that it does not support storage of the same data in duplicate form.

Disadvantages of electronic health record system.

Hacking issues.

Hackers may find a certain area which is vulnerable and use it to gain access into the system to obtain patient data.

The system could need to be updated regularly.

Due to the advancement in technology the system may at regular intervals require to add some features in regard with improvement of the services being offered to patients.