Imagine you are the clinic manager for a dermatology practice and your facility iscurrently using a mixture of paper files and electronicclaimbilling. Your team recently attended a continuing education seminar and learned about the benefits of a full transition to electronic health records and brought it to your attention.You decide toinvestigate.

Discussthemost importantfactorsyoushouldconsider when researchingelectronic healthsystems.How could youjustify either maintaining your current system or switching to a 100% electronic systemand why were the factors you chose the most important?