Question

1. Name at least two benefits of having patients enter their own symptoms and history into the computer.

Answer 1

It helps identify the patients most frequent symptoms which have to bother, needs proper diagnosis and treatment.

There is need not to collect history from patient for every visit

It helps to update the health related problems with existing problems and it helps health care professionals to correlate with each others

It helps to review and evaluate the level of cure and effectiveness of care.

It helps to transmit information from one to another health care information easily and quickly.

Predict by the patient arrival of such symptoms before it appear

It helps to identify the causes and risk factor for each symptoms and treatment them effectively.