Electronic Health Records TodayElectronic health records are medical information stored on computers. The data includes a variety of data, medical history, medications, allergies, diagnoses, vaccinations, laboratories, radiology, vital signs, billing information and personal statistics on weight and age. The EHR is designed to help with medical errors. This helps reduce errors related to medication allergies. Also help with reading readability and eliminate lost forms and documents. It allows multiple doctors to view the patient's history. Doctors or nurses can update the information in your file. To compare the EHR with paper records, the EHR has more advantages than disadvantages. Paper records require a lot of storage and require 7 years of storage. Locating documents using paper documents can be labor intensive due to documents being lost in packed boxes for several years. Some places didn't have proper storage space, so they stored them in different areas. It sometimes took several days or even weeks to obtain documents from doctors. Handwritten paper documents have poor readability and documents are poorly written due to legible handwriting. The price of storage media, paper and film per unit for information is a dramatic difference. Medical records are entered onto a computer and are legible so that anyone can read and understand them. Electronic medical records can be continually updated. It allows quality improvement and public health surveillance from hundreds of miles to evaluate records and, in doing so, helps improve the quality of care by reviewing their records. The EHR is designed for medical providers to share information with groups, e.g., laboratories, specialists, medical imaging departments. facilities, pharmacies, emerge... middle of paper ...... they collapse, it could be hours or even days before they are operational again. This could therefore delay a patient's treatment. Medical providers copy and paste things that cause problems into medical histories, and nurses and doctors don't do it because it's easier and faster for them. Many errors are made with records and prescriptions, just as with paper records, due to entering the wrong information or entering the wrong medication dose. Healthcare professionals and patients themselves are very concerned about people discovering their information. by breaking into computers. “According to HHS, in 2012, approximately 125 major breaches affected approximately 2.2 million people. Most healthcare data breaches come from stolen computers, but hackers caused the largest breach last year, stealing the information of 780,000 patients. (http://www.justice.org)”.