Pros & Cons of EHR
Pros Rationale Cons Rationale
1) Ability to involve 1) Patients often 1) Expensive Establishing such
patients in their care feel left out in their technologies are
care and this is a highly expensive
way they can to invest in
access their health software’s and
information and ask individuals to be
any follow-up trained
questions, in terms
improving the
quality of overall
patient care
(McBride and
Tietze 2016).
2) Easy access to 2) EHR makes it 2) Privacy and EHR brings the
review results very easy to view safety concerns risk of hacks and
patient imaging and scams where
lab results with just personal patient
a few clicks, information can be
instead of waiting stolen, with just a
for radiology to fax few mere clicks
results and at times (Laur, 2015).
staff never receives
the paper copy.
3) Bar code med 3) This is the safest 3) Downtime To reboot the
administration way of system there needs
administering to be upgrades and
medication. Yes, downtime where
we have the 7 the system
checks and rights becomes
of med unavailable.
administration, but During this time
lets be real, we are there is great loss
all human and of productivity
maybe we pulled (Laur, 2015).
the wrong med or
went into the
wrong patients
room. Barcode
scanning prevents
any such errors. It
stops and alerts you
before
Pros Rationale Cons Rationale
1) Ability to involve 1) Patients often 1) Expensive Establishing such
patients in their care feel left out in their technologies are
care and this is a highly expensive
way they can to invest in
access their health software’s and
information and ask individuals to be
any follow-up trained
questions, in terms
improving the
quality of overall
patient care
(McBride and
Tietze 2016).
2) Easy access to 2) EHR makes it 2) Privacy and EHR brings the
review results very easy to view safety concerns risk of hacks and
patient imaging and scams where
lab results with just personal patient
a few clicks, information can be
instead of waiting stolen, with just a
for radiology to fax few mere clicks
results and at times (Laur, 2015).
staff never receives
the paper copy.
3) Bar code med 3) This is the safest 3) Downtime To reboot the
administration way of system there needs
administering to be upgrades and
medication. Yes, downtime where
we have the 7 the system
checks and rights becomes
of med unavailable.
administration, but During this time
lets be real, we are there is great loss
all human and of productivity
maybe we pulled (Laur, 2015).
the wrong med or
went into the
wrong patients
room. Barcode
scanning prevents
any such errors. It
stops and alerts you
before
