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Don’t be scared into thinking that EMRs are expensive pieces of machinery for well-funded hospitals. It’s important to realize that EMRs don’t have to be expensive and good EMRs pay for themselves by helping to cut down excess costs in the hospital.

When you walk into banks in Africa, your information is not stored on paper. Why then is it so common to walk into a hospital that stores your vital, personal medical information on paper?

Capitation eliminates the need for unnecessary interventions which helps to keep costs for both the patient and hospital low but it also restricts the doctor's ability to make decisions.

The way a hospital handles patient charts says a lot about how much they care about their patients.

Studies show that a medical error is made in 42.8% of cases where paper records are used instead of electronic medical records.