Electronic Medical Records Help Improve Patient Outcomes But Have An Ugly Side Too. Here's Why

EMRs should facilitate clinical reasoning, but never blindly drive logical thinking, and should not be a replacement for experience-based clinical analysis. Maintaining EMRs demands a lot of time.

Electronic medical records may be convenient, but it is not without its share of shortcomings. For instance, EMRs have undermined face-to-face interactions between patients and doctors, and reduced patient-doctor interactions to computerised and checkbox-based discussions.

Source : ABP Live AI

Electronic medical records (EMR) or electronic health records are electronic versions of a patient’s medical history, and are maintained by healthcare providers. These records include important clinical information about the patient, progress notes, and years of data on medications, complications, specific symptoms, past medical problems, immunisation, laboratory and radiology reports, and allergies, among others. Healthcare professionals can better assess the patient’s condition by