potential to make every patient a participant in a vast, ongoing clinical trial, pinpointing

treatments and side effects that would otherwise be hard to discern.

리스닝

The reading passage is correct in advocating the adoption of electronic medical records to
simplify record keeping. And yes, modernizing the paper filing system will have a few
benefits. But there are a few substantial reasons why it will be impossible to completely
eliminate paper records from the medical industry.

To begin with, electronic medical records cannot significantly reduce office operation costs
because doctors will still keep paper records in addition to their electronic records. In
many cases, hospital administration, doctors, and insurance companies require papers
with signatures on it for official use. So even though some doctor offices or hospitals will
use electronic filing systems, they will also maintain paper records in parallel.

Second, electronic record systems will not entirely eliminate record keeping errors. Human
error still exists in the computer age. For example, during medical checkups doctors still
take notes with a paper and pen. These notes are then passed on to other office staff that
in turn digitize it and enter data into databases. We all know that doctors have notoriously
illegible handwriting, which could be misinterpreted by office staff and incorrectly input into
record systems. In this way, errors would still find their way into a digital record system
despite all the best efforts to eliminate them.

Third, the notion that all these electronic medical records could be used in some sort of
integrated and large -scale research is flawed. Patient medical record privacy is protected
by law and not to be shared publicly. Aside from the legal aspect, it is doubtful that many
patients would be willing to give legal consent for records. This is not a question of the
public's opinion, and it is a question of the research teams because obviously this