Question

What are the purpose of maintaining patient records in a database?

Answer 1

• Information can be accessed quickly and easily
• Reduces the paper work
• Records can be saved in times of disaster.
• Saves money ,time and space.
• Clerical errors can be prevented.
• Health care team can get access to the reports easily and instantly.
• Hard copy of medical reports can be given to the patient even if they lost the reports.
• Information is more secure and accurate.
• Helps in epidemiological studies of disease about the incidence or outcome of rare diseases.
• Used in statistical reporting such as quality improvement, resource management and public health communicable disease surveillance.
• To assess the quality of health care.
• Helps to access the patient data for research purpose.
• Helps in learning about the disease condition.