Electronic Health Records TodayElectronic health records are medical information recorded on computers, the data consists of a variety of data, medical history, medications, allergies, diagnoses, vaccinations, labs, radiology, vital signs, billing information and personal weight and age statistics. The EHR is designed to help with medical errors. Helps reduce errors in case of allergies to a drug. It also helps in readability and eliminates lost forms and documents. Allows multiple doctors to view the patient's history. Doctors or nurses can update information in your medical record. To compare the electronic medical record with paper documents, the electronic medical record has more advantages than disadvantages. Paper documents require a lot of storage space and require 7 years of storage. Finding documents through paper records may be labor-intensive due to documents being lost in boxes that have been packed for several years. Some places didn't have adequate storage, so they stored them in different areas. Sometimes it took several days or weeks to get the documents from the doctors. Handwritten paper documents have poor readability, and documents are written incorrectly due to legible writing. The price for storage media, paper and film per drive for information represents a dramatic difference. Medical records are typed into a computer and are readable so everyone can read and understand them. Electronic health records can be continuously updated. It enables quality improvement and public health surveillance hundreds of miles away to evaluate medical records and, in this way, helps improve the quality of care by reviewing their records. EHR is designed to allow healthcare providers to share information with groups such as laboratories, specialists, medical imaging facilities, pharmacies, emerge... middle of paper... collapse and it may take hours or days before they are operational again. So it could delay a patient's treatment. Healthcare workers copy and paste things that cause problems in medical history and nurses and doctors don't because it's easier for them and faster. Many errors are made with charts and prescriptions as well as paper charts due to typing incorrect information or an incorrect dose of medication. Privacy Concerns Healthcare providers and patients themselves have many concerns about people finding out their information by breaking into their computers. “According to HHS, in 2012, approximately 125 major breaches affected approximately 2.2 million people. Most healthcare data breaches stem from computer theft, but hackers caused the largest breach last year, stealing the information of 780,000 patients. (http://www.giustizia.org)”.