Hence, the tutorial, presented in this article can be used by the physicians who would like to keep their prescription digitized. The result of this study shows that the participant had no technical difficulty in the generation of the form on their smartphone.

One participant created the form in just 5 min. The tutorial was designed purposefully for a smartphone to help the busy physician who can easily do it even in their spare time. With this background, the aim of this study was 1) to train primary care physicians about creating a form, upload prescriptions, and retrieval of the data on a smartphone 2) to test the practicality of the training material (i.e., tutorial) with the help of a survey, and 3) to ascertain overall perception regarding the training material, the digitization, and the retrieval system by an in-depth interview.Ī total of 12 primary care physicians used the tutorial to successfully create Google form, upload the prescription, and retrieve those from cloud storage. To the best of our knowledge, its potential in digitization and retrieval of prescription has not been explored in any previous study. It is a free service and it can be utilized by a user to keep the data on the cloud. “Google forms” is a web-based application, which can be used to create a form for data collection. However, for a medico-legal point of view in the Indian scenario, the medical record should be kept for at least 3 years from the initiation of treatment of an adult subject. A primary care physician may face difficulty in acquiring and maintaining those costly and space-occupying system of EHR. Keeping medical records requires 3 major components – hardware (i.e., computers), software (i.e., electronic-health record keeping application for computers), and manpower (e.g., doctors' assistants). However, its implementation faces difficulty due to factors like low resource, high patient volume, less manpower, etc. There are several advantages (e.g., no need for personal computer or internet, no threat of cyber-attack) and disadvantages (e.g., decay in the paper, damage due to natural disaster, huge space requirement) of keeping the paper document.įor easy retrieval and convenience of handling, private sector and government-run hospitals are gradually adopting electronic health records (EHR). In a developing country like India, most of the records are kept as a paper document.

Medical records (e.g., prescription, diagnostic test reports, and medical certificates) are important documents for the patient, health care facility, and doctors.

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