Simulated electronic health record (EHR) is a new information retrieval system focused on a streamlined, intuitive, and accessible electronic record scheme. Its integration into medical education is essential because it will allow future employees to access the different information bases they will have to work. These learning systems include documented data on a given patient’s condition, health indicators, and various clinical signs. They allow students to learn treatment tactics, make prevention plans, properly prescribe prescriptions, and more.
A significant resource must be considered to fully integrate EHRs into the learning process: the person and the time it takes to compile detailed electronic charts. It takes a great deal of time to transfer data from clinical case studies from paper to electronic format, and the instructor may have difficulty due to this (Aguirre et al., 2019). In addition, it is also the responsibility of teachers to create rubrics and guides that allow students and how other teachers work with the EHR simulations to be evaluated. While many systems can auto-update and do not require supervision/presence, creating new versions also wastes human resources: time on new software, analysis of accumulated paper data.
It may seem that a simulation system involving a simulated patient is relatively simple because it is abstract. It is not the case: depending on the decisions made by the students, changes with the simulator need to be constantly mapped. In addition, there is the difficulty of storing such volumes of data: you need a base of computers with powerful processors and motherboards that can handle the permanent load (Aguirre et al., 2019). In the absence of simulators, the leading resource is the time spent assessing students’ knowledge. While with simulators, the decisions made by students will be visible, in the absence of visual objects, it is not easy to evaluate the efforts made.
Reference
Aguirre, R. R., Suarez, O., Fuentes, M., & Sanchez-Gonzalez, M. A. (2019). Electronic health record implementation: A review of resources and tools. Cureus, 11(9).