In the lecture, the professor discusses why using digital medical records to replace paper ones are not as promising as presented in the reading.
To begin with, the reading passage claims that by deploying electronic medical records, the cost of storing, copying and transferring paper-based medical records can be eliminated, which is more economic, as well as making records more approachable to doctors. Nonetheless, the speaker refutes this and argues that although many doctors are using electronic medical records now, paper form of records are not totally abandoned for certain reasons. Hence, electronic medical records are not that cost-effective.
Next, contrary to the second reason in the reading that electronic medical records are less vulnerable to errors, the lecturer points out that doctors tend to write on paper when meeting patients and the paper records are subsequently typed into the database, during which mistakes are still likely to occur due to unrecognizable hand writing and poor organization.
Finally, the instructor rules out the possibility of easier research using digital medical records. It is not the handling of data, as the speaker asserts, but the privacy law to protect patients that impede researchers from free access to medical records. Despite the ability to save huge amounts of records, databases are still not open to scientists, just like paper archives.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, hence, nonetheless, second, so, still, well, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 22.412803532 36% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1197.0 1373.03311258 87% => OK
No of words: 218.0 270.72406181 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.49082568807 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.84250218741 4.04702891845 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79219169894 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.582568807339 0.540411800872 108% => OK
syllable_count: 377.1 419.366225166 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 13.0662251656 61% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 90.8693258201 49.2860985944 184% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.625 110.228320801 136% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.25 21.698381199 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.5 7.06452816374 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.569927629452 0.272083759551 209% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.249035424123 0.0996497079465 250% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10703153094 0.0662205650399 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.306203623833 0.162205337803 189% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.12246300378 0.0443174109184 276% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.1 13.3589403974 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 53.8541721854 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.0289183223 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.86 12.2367328918 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.68 8.42419426049 115% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 63.6247240618 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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