Electronic medical records are used for every service a patient receives from auxiliary departments such as pharmacy, laboratory, or radiology generated from the administrative department. Some systems also permit the detention of other signals, such as nursing notes, physicians’ orders, etc. Mostly, these signals are not combined. They are captured and stored in silo systems, which have separate patient identification systems and their private log-ins. Silo vendors maintain their versions and standards of vocabularies, user, and patient identification, and these silos cannot be centrally accessed.

Some who need access to a patient’s medical records would have to use many applications, log in and finally find the patient’s records. When new results are available electronically, previous results can be edited or corrected, and new information can be conveniently added. However, for the clinician to receive this information, he/she has to be logged in.

Further, dissimilar information can be formed into combined displays like flow sheets for clinical analysis if a clinician has composite access to the data. This will enable the system to display all cases in which patients are suffering from the same disease.

This system would solve multiple vocabulary problems that are currently difficult to track. The data is assembled so that the systems easily recognize terms and insert them in the proper context.

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Data can be entered as free text like progress comments, in a prearranged list like images, or digitized information with associated data like electrocardiograms. However, these lists do not ensure that one list’s values are compatible with another list’s values in another system.

The result of this paper makes clear that although there is no single or simple factor to ensure success. Several things will help move smoothly from paper-based to electronic medical records.

An appropriate environment for the effective functioning of an organization in which a system is installed is vital. The many factors responsible for the successful installation and running of a system include effective management, employment of trained personnel, and easily available technical training and support, coupled with financial stability.

Although this paper’s findings cannot be generalized, the information and experience obtained can easily be applied to other settings. The test here would make practical use of the experience that participants in this study have gained and create a research program that explores varied vendor systems, different users, and other settings in which a practice is located.