Electronic medical records also has benefits when it comes to going different hospitals, and stuff.
If I'm a regular patient at hospital A and I have a rare blood disease, and I go up to London where, shock and horror, I get stabbed (this is all hypothetical, I don't know much about medication - apart from its history, but that's a different matter) the hospital in London can just quickly bring up my details and know that I can't have some kind of blood transfusion because of my blood disease.
In terms to real-life, non-hypothetical situations, a few years back I was feeling some pain in one of my testicles (yes, yes, laugh), and so I went to my local GP, he said that I should go to the hospital, by the time I got to the hospital, they already had all of my details ready, including exactly what the GP had just diagnosed me with.
I don't think these situations would have been possible with a non-electronic system, or, at least, they'd be far slower/more impractical and probably more costly, too.
Existing User Log In
New User Registration
Register for a free account to gain full access to the VGChartz Network and join our thriving community.
