The use of electronic dental records is expanding and eventually will become standard. There are considerable risk management benefits to electronic records.
Some benefits include:
- Standardized organization and format
- Avoids handwritten, illegible entries
- Facilitates complete records with consistent entries by various providers
- Avoids physical storage which may be prone to loss in fires, floods, or other events
- Cloud storage provides safe, redundant storage and access
- Security systems built-in
- Eases storage of images with record
- Makes records available to more than one practitioner or location at a time
- Provides potential for data extraction for research
- In many cases, it is expensive to go digital, but well worth the cost.
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