Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is raising concerns all around the globe, as many lives have been lost and families have been left without hope. The Digital Era has started, and many sectors, including healthcare, are adapting to the innovative human-machine integration that has developed. However, the new systems still offer benefits and limits that will influence certain nations' choice to accept this platform owing to their unique requirements and circumstances. The earliest electronic health records were developed in the early 1960s to store long-term patient data. However, it was not maintained since the system's foundation is very demanding, and medical practitioners stopped utilizing it. After a decade, the growth of technology was unavoidable, gradually altering areas such as business and healthcare. However, every development has ramifications. The implementation of the new system may enhance organizational performance, but there are still uncertainties, notably about sustainability and how it will affect the firm in the future. Now, sufficient medical documentation has long been a source of contention in the healthcare industry, and management should begin introducing new processes to address the underlying problem. If the government already has a system in place to ensure the country's long-term existence, this system should be used to ensure the consistency of each patient's medical records. Will an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) adaptation in the Philippines, a third-world nation with a poor healthcare system, be the best option to modify and enhance medical care quality?
Highlights
Consistency in documentation is highly valued in the healthcare sector since it allows for monitoring patients' health, which may prevent larger concerns from happening later in their lives
The Philippines continues to have slow internet connections, making it hard for Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) to be successful in its present condition
If the healthcare industry agrees to invest in EDMS, the difficulty will be assuring the system's long-term survival
Summary
1. Introduction[1] The medical record has typically been handwritten using pen and paper, and this technique has stood the test of time. Regardless of how secure the filing storage is, paper degrades, and pen-written files fade with time, endangering the long-term viability of record-keeping. Computerized access to patients' medical records has been proved useful in first-world countries for many years. Patient records in the United Kingdom, for example, have increased due to an unsustainable demographic scenario dominated by people over the age of 60. Since patient care is distributed across medical institutions, record transfer has proven to be time-consuming and costly. These incidents occurred before the use of EDMS in their healthcare delivery system. In the United Kingdom, electronic document management systems (EDMS) are referred to as digital healthcare solutions
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