Paper medical records. A paper medical record is any patient information, such as a patient chart, recorded on paper. They were widely used until about 10 or 20 years ago. However, paper-based records ...

A plurality of people in a recent survey indicated paper-based medical-records systems are more secure than electronic records, but under emergency circumstances, a large majority also indicated ...

Based on an internal briefing from early this summer which made its way to my inbox, it looks like the Defense Department is scanning a large heap of medical records so the Veterans Affairs ...

Paper-based vs. digital medical records Jean Marie Harelimana’s 76 years on earth could as well be defined in one adjective: spic-and-span. This neatness is not just in the manner the Gisagara ...

(HealthDay)—Both paper-based and electronic health records (EHRs) have shortcomings in terms of quality of content, process, and structure, with poor quality of nursing documentation seen for ...

As the U.S. invests billions of dollars to convert from paper-based medical records to electronic ones, has the time come to offer everyone a unique health-care identification number? Proponents ...

Former Crozer Health patients can get digital and paper copies of their medical records at one of Delco’s Navigating Our ...

State’s Bureau of Medical Services has been working for more than a decade to replace its current paper-based medical record system with an electronic solution to better meet the healthcare ...

If appropriately implemented, blockchain-based medical records systems of tomorrow could be far more accurate, secure and accessible than the one-size-fits-all approach applied to today’s ...

“Paper-based medical records are bulky, difficult to retrieve, and prone to damage,” he explained. “During hospital renovations, mismanagement, or crises such as fire outbreaks, these ...