benifits to pt with computarized charting

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It frequently is easy to see the benefits to physicians , administrators nurses and ancillary departments as organizations become increasingly electronic data based . Not so obvious are the benefits to the patient List some of the benefits and shortcomings that you see for patients with the advent of computerization of organizations . Ask coworkers or friends what they see as the benefits they may have obtained from a computerized healthcare organization .Introduction p

As a normal process of health care system , checking of -based patient medical charts requires neat hand writing , extra efforts to read and study the patient 's health status , which is time consuming and may also cause wrong diagnosis or prescription of medicines . Apart from these , maintenance of manual s of each patient in a hospital and checking s is a laborious task for nurses and medical assistants which will delay the process of treatment or billing for a patient Loss / damage or misplacement of diagnosed s or medical test reports causes severe disturbance in the hospital for a patient requires to be tested again for medical reports . work requires excessive number of staff for maintaining medical records and reports of patients in a hospital

Such as the above drawbacks are eliminated through computer charting with the use of extremely efficiency software specially designed for maintaining voluminous data base of hospital patients . Patient 's date of check-in , diagnosis , prescribed medicines , visits of physicians , doctors and nurses are all computerized and charts provide a complete set of information , it is much easier even for the patient to understand one 's own health status . Verification and scrutiny for a thorough patient check up is made very easy with computer charting provides complete information about a patient and easy access of a patient 's record is available for any doctor through network and any sort of complicated patient 's case can be diagnosed by an expert in medicine through computer chart . Fast processing , easy maintenance of patient 's records easy accessibility and minimizes staff or employment

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A comparison of handwritten and computer-assisted prescriptions in an intensive care unit

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