When working with technology partners and integrating new technologies, health care internal legal counsels are responsible for conducting due diligence, and they are often quite cautious.
Therefore, a recent survey of MedCity readers revealed that for legal reasons, it is not surprising that many interviewees are reluctant to say goodbye to paper medical documents.
Although a survey by Foxit Software showed that nearly half of healthcare professionals describe the adoption of digital documents as an “important” or “urgent” priority, it is not wise for some discussions to push for a complete switch to digital-based patient documents. Cite around this topic to imply that it is. In fact, the investigation showed that the legal argument for retaining paper medical documents has not disappeared.
The report shed light on services that still rely on paper-based document areas, which are identified as priorities for healthcare organizations to convert to digital, and why some institutions have not yet adopted digital documents.
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