title: Paperless system solves problem of lost chart costs.
abstract: Before going paperless, know what you're looking for and what the expected benefits are. The most technologically advanced system in the world is worthless if your doctors can't use it. The system will have greater value if your nurses can chart on it as well. A careful cost-benefit analysis should tell you ahead of time whether the system will pay for itself.
mesh_terms: D017046:Cost Savings; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009657:North Carolina