The Pros And Cons Of Patient-Entered Data
The positives of patient-entered data are the patient has access to his or her own medical records. The outcome of the medical treatment of the symptoms will only been seen by the patient. Another positive of patient-entered data is more accurate reflection of a patient’s complaints and they can review their histories so they can be better prepared for the doctor visit. The downside of patient-entered data is if identify fraud can occur which lead to the person gaining access to confidential and sensitive records. Another negative if the system was to go down and if you do not have backup plan in place to keep things pursuing even after a catastrophic local server failure, all the patient-entered data will be lost.