The security issues of paper and electronic health record systems and the issues to be considered when converting to an EHR system.

Barriers to Implementing an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system

Barriers to implementing an EHR system

Below is a list of ten things that are true barriers for most health care organizations today. Please review the list and decide which barrier your organization is facing. The first step is to acknowledge the issue(s) and then you can tackle them head on. Good luck.

1 Difficulty in adding older records to an EHR system

Today there are organizations that pick a start date and then implement their new EHR system but older paper medical records ought to be incorporated into a patient's electronic health record. One method of doing this is to merely scan...