Appraisal Of The Principles And Practices Of Electronic Health Records (ehr) In Public Hospital. A Case Of Narok County Hospital

The paper tries to investigate all the principles and practices in the management of the electronic medical records. ABSTRACT For many years, health records have been controlled through paper based systems which are vulnerable to destruction, wear and loss hence hinders adequate usability, retrieval and access. In addition, this made health processes to be time consuming and expensive, making the manual records more unreliable. In bid to mitigate these challenges, the Ministry of Health in Kenya directed on the implementation and use of electronic health records.  The aim of this study was to …