Question

Illustrate how the technology of electronic records has altered healthcare administration and patient care. Compare and contrast electronic records versus manual records regarding healthcare administration and patient care. Include at least four points of comparison/contrast and analyze the implications. An actual or hypothetical situation may be used for example. Any actual situation should be presented as a hypothetical one, with any names and other identifying information changed to protect anonymity.

Answer 1

Health care sector is in its advanced form.It has developed technologically recently which has sophisticated the delivery of care.

Medical record	Electronic record
Paper work is the basis of documentation Cannot be transfered from one health care area to other	No paper work,documentation done in computerized system Can be transferred
rieving data is time consuming	Retrieving data is easy
No internet needed	Internet needed
Not accessible at all time	Accessible at anytime ,anywhere

For example

If a patient is admitted with a history of accident and in a comatose stage.The health care professionals can retrieve his past medical history with his name and address if he has an identity card without his relatives through electronic record. This is not possible in medical record