Question

Discuss how moving from paper files to electronic files has created an extra cost to the healthcare system/consumer and also discuss burdens that have come about due to electronic files. Who should absorb the cost of requesting data for e-discovery; the tax payers, insurance providers, healthcare providers, the plaintiff, etc.? Why?

Answer 1

Technological advancement in health care sector is a huge benefit for patients as well as to the healthealthcare professionals to prevent medical error.

Conversion of paper files to electronic files is time saving, no maintenance required,accessible any time,but it comes with it own drawback of high cost.Some of them are as following

• Security issue,chances of access by stranger is possible
• hackers may use it monetize from health care organizations
• reputations can be broken when it is transparent to everyone
• maintenance of this ftom cyber hack is of great cost
• The vendor has to provide an updated or recent software or should have a good proven track record
• The cost has to be taken up by the health care organizations and by patients when they go for personal health record.
• The cost has to be met on the basis of training
• The security tools used are costly
• Hardware and IT instalment

The overall cost will be absorbed by the government in the initiation installation and usage by the providers and upgradation timely