BC Advantage - 2005 Issue 10
Web-Based Electronic Medical Records Offer Portability, Disaster Protection
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Article Overview
This article reviews how web-based electronic medical record systems can support practice continuity, disaster recovery, and patient access to health information. It also covers related efforts around continuity of care records, interoperability, privacy, and coding/classification standards in healthcare informatics. The piece is relevant to physicians, practice managers, health IT stakeholders, and coding professionals interested in record portability and standardized data exchange.
Why This Topic Matters
The article explains why electronically accessible records became especially important for maintaining care during disruptions and for supporting secure information sharing. It also highlights the broader informatics issues that affect how medical data are stored, exchanged, and coded across systems and regions.
What You Will Learn
- Why web-based electronic medical records are viewed as useful for continuity of care and disaster preparedness.
- How patient-accessible records fit into broader health information sharing efforts.
- What interoperability and privacy concerns are raised for web-based medical record systems.
- How coding and classification standards affect structured medical data in electronic records.
Who Should Read This
- Physicians
- Practice managers
- Health information technology professionals
- Medical coders and coding educators
- Healthcare administrators
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