Computer And Your Professional Career

Name: Instructor: Institution: Date: Computer and your professional career The hospital had numerous manual records of patients that had been kept for years. However, tracking the health records of patients was so time-consuming. This motivated the hospital to adopt electronic health record technology. An important ability of this technology is that it provides patient records instantly. The patient records provided by EHR include treatment plans, medications, and laboratory results. Before the implementation of EHR at the hospital, majority of nurses and physicians needed convincing as they were very worried of the switch to a paperless office. However, Laura (2015) asserts that nurse contribution is important when implementing the EHR system as it makes them more engaged. As a result, nurses were asked to propose features that would make the EHR system user interface ease to operate. Consequently, a nurse-only care module for adjusting dropdown menus to simplify our workflow w...