Paper Based Records Are Not Going Away
Posted by MyMedicalRecords | Filed under Personal Health, medical records
With all of the talk about Electronic Medical Records, it’s easy to forget that the vast majority of American doctors still are using paper-based records for lab reports, patient charts, radiology reports, medical histories and other important patient information. In fact, an article from Harvard Business Online reported that only 17% of U.S. doctors have adopted Electronic Medical Records and – among practices with with four or less physicians – the adoption rate is just 9%. Paper-based records are going to be around for quite awhile.
So it’s important, when you choose a Personal Health Record (PHR), to be able to effectively store and manage paper-based records from your provider. With MyMedicalRecords.com you can have your providers easily fax records into your account and then you store and manage them in a customized personal filing cabinet you create. The benefit is that you store the complete lab report, not just the values. And you easily can print out records to take with if you are seeing additional doctors along your continuum of care.
Tags: Paper based medical records, Personal Health, PHR
One Response to “Paper Based Records Are Not Going Away”
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