Essay On Electronic Health Records

When it comes to healthcare your treatment can be in many different places with many different providers. By keeping a personal health record, you are able to have your health history at the tips of your fingers at any one time. I read a story about the challenges of making sure doctors have all of the information that they need. Going to the doctor can be challenging when you don’t remember every medical concern or finding that has popped up in your life time. This gets even more difficult as you get older.
Paper records are notoriously unhelpful when these situations pop up. Electronic health records can only do so much in terms of having all of the information that physicians need to give the best care possible as well. Electronic records are only capable of containing information that is given to staff to be
When patients are visiting a doctor for the first time or even after a long time from the last visit it is important to provide all the information possible. By keeping a personal health record, patients will not be remembering all of the information that they have off of the top of their heads. Patients will be able to have a printed copy or even a digital copy to provide all of the information they would be asked about. Patients will not have to blindly fill out health record forms and can have a sense of ease every time they go to the doctor whether they are starting fresh with a new doctor or updating information for a primary physician they have not been to in a while.
Patients with a personal health record are able to know everything there is about themselves in the medical world that they keep documented there. Certain personal health records will contain medication lists that let you know the medications that patients are taking. Some records could even help patients to research the medications that they are taking to fully understand the interactions and side