In the United States, medical information about patients traditionally has been recorded and stored on paper forms. However, there are efforts to persuade doctors to adopt electronic medical record systems in which information about patients is stored in electronic databases rather than on paper. It is argued that storing patients’ medical records in electronic databases has several advantages over traditional paper-based record keeping.
Reducing Costs
First, the use of electronic records can help reduce costs by saving money on storing and transferring medical records. While paper records require a significant amount of storage space, electronic medical records take up virtually no space. Moreover, by having patients’ records computerized in databases, doctors can easily access the records from almost anywhere and can easily duplicate and transfer them when necessary. This costs much less than copying, faxing, or transporting paper records from one location to another.
Preventing Errors
Second, electronic medical records are crucial to reducing the chances of medical errors. Illegible handwriting, improper transcription of data, and nonstandard organization of paper records have caused errors that in some cases have had serious consequences for the patients* health. In contrast, electronic records are associated with standardization of forms and legible computer fonts and thus minimize the possibility of human error
Aiding Research
Third, electronic medical records can greatly aid medical research by making it possible to gather large amounts of data from patient records. It is often impractical, impossible, or prohibitively expensive to manually go through thousands of patients’ paper records housed in doctors’ offices. However, with the existence of electronic medical records, it would be simple to draw out the needed information from the medical databases because the databases are already formatted for data collection. Once in the electronic system, the records could be accessed from any research location.
The article and the lecture are both about the uses of electronic system. The author presents three theories about the benefits of keeping the medical record electronically over the old fashion paper based system. The lecturer disputes the claims made on the article and her position is that, they are incorrect.
According to the reading the implementation of the electronic base system of record keeping will significantly decrease the cost that is related to the storing and the transport of the record files. Unlike the hard copy based system the computerized record system does not take physical space and can be easily assess which result in minimizing the cost associated with copying, faxing and exchange of the record between different subjects. This argument is challenged by the lecturer. She claims that even after the electronically recorded the written records from the doctors have to be store for future purposes since it is of vital importance for legal purposes. Additionally she pointed out that due to the fact that the record are to be secured it will still take physically space and will not aid in reducing the cost.
Secondly, the author suggests electronic information based system will significantly reduce and prevent the error significantly which are common in the hardcopy system since they tend to lack organization and proper format. In the article, it is said that such error can be of detrimental for patients however, the use of electronic system will reduce such error. The lecturer, however, asserts that medical records of the patients imputed by the doc in the paper are entered by the medical staff in the record system. She goes on to say that since the record still have to be inputted by the staff there is still high chance of mistakes during the entry of data in the electronic system.
Finally the author posits that the large amount of data from the medical database which are inputted electronic can be easily asses for the research purposes. He contends that unlike in paper based system they don’t have to go through each record to obtain the data manually aiding the research by providing them fast and tailored data as per their requirements. In contrast, the lecturer stance is the access of such record without the permission of the government and patients is a serious breach of privacy law. He noted that, such permission are hardly granted by the patients.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Additionally,
...of vital importance for legal purposes. Additionally she pointed out that due to the fact th...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 10.4613686534 201% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 22.412803532 116% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 30.3222958057 191% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2023.0 1373.03311258 147% => OK
No of words: 403.0 270.72406181 149% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01985111663 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48049772903 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62546730803 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 145.348785872 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464019851117 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 639.0 419.366225166 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.4925453617 49.2860985944 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.4375 110.228320801 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1875 21.698381199 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.875 7.06452816374 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.305878121764 0.272083759551 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102334027247 0.0996497079465 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0802107458359 0.0662205650399 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185500378577 0.162205337803 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0402452609139 0.0443174109184 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.3589403974 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.68 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 63.6247240618 152% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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