MD:Notes: Designing an Information System for Public Hospitals  

By its very nature, an EMR (electronic medical record) is not subject to the physical limitations of a paper chart. Many clinics can access a patient’s EMR at once. EMRs are never in transit or waiting to be filed. For these reasons, using all-electronic records would greatly alleviate the problem of missing charts, and result in more efficient patient care.

Ahern, Katherine, Zachary Gillen and Jill Blue Lin. University of California Berkeley (2008). Articles>Information Design>Biomedical