The Benefits of Electronic Health Records
Tanina Watkins
MED1080
Instructor Cheatem
August 17, 2011
Benefits of EHR 2
Outline
1. The title page
* The title * The name of the Author * The course title * The name of the instructor * The date of submission * The Abstract
2. Introduction
* The Benefits of Electronic * Why it is efficient and effective * Advantages * Less time consuming * Cost cutting * The thesis statement
3. The body Paragraph I,II, and III
* Less time consuming * Cost cutting * Training * Promotes evidence-based medicine * The justification of electronic health records * In-text citation in author, date, format * Presentation of evidence
4. The Conclusion
Benefits of EHR 3
* My summary on The Benefits of EHR. * Thesis statement reinstated * Discussion of further scope for the research on the topic * The concluded line.
5. References
* Text sources * Internet sources
Benefits in EHR 4
Abstract
In recent years electronic health records (EHR) has evolved its concept as a systematic collection of electronic health information about patients or populations. While most hospitals continue to you paper-based records others seem to be jumping on the bandwagon. Currently the US is lagging behind other countries that use EHR. The research paper compares the effectiveness and efficient of EHR over paper-based.
Benefits in EHR 5
The Benefits of Electronic Health Records In my opinion electronic health records (EHR) is more efficient and effective than paper based medical records. An EHR is an evolving concept defined as a systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients and populations (Wikipedia 2011). It is a record in digital format that is capable of being shared across different health care setting, by being embedded in network-connected
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