Computer Charting and Health Care

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This paper discusses the benefits that computer charting has on nursing and health care. The paper contends that one of the major advantages of computer charting is that a patient's medical information can be accessed from anywhere in the hospital. Another advantage described in the paper is that computer charting eliminates the problem of interpreting poor handwriting and suffering from the resulting errors in interpretation. The paper assesses that the greatest benefit of computer charting is that it leads nurses to comply with 'good nursing' methods by providing the essential template for their daily work.

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"Technology has changed every significant industry on Earth, and perhaps the industry most affected outside of telecommunications and travel has been health care. Medical innovation goes hand-in-hand with technological innovation, and so many of our most technically advanced procedures depend solely on technology for their success. For instance, the balloon angioplasty has saved countless cardiac patients' lives, but the procedure does not exist without the technology to produce and insert the catheter and the computer imaging that guides the cardiologist in its implementation."

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