Effects of Computerized Patient Records on Patients

Computerized Patient Records (CPR) are computer-based documentations of all the meetings between a patient and a physician that contain the data of the various details about the patient, any clinical observations, investigations and diagnostic results, mode of treatment and the details about the follow-up of the patient by the physician. They are used in most of the hospitals to provide a quality patient care. It has both, positive and negative effects on the physicians as well as on the patients. This paper emphasizes only on the various positive and negative effects that the system has on the patients.