Manual vs. Electronic Scheduling Processes
Everyone has different ways of working some like to work the easy way and others the hard way. A manual and electronic scheduling process has it advantage and disadvantage. Its great knowing the pro’s and con’s between manual and electric scheduling because it’s better to know then not to. There’s no different electronic and paper discovery there the same jus in two distinct ways. Working electronically means having the ability to search, sort, and retrieve information, it saves time. Electric scheduling can keep nurses, Dr., etc. better connected with customers, patients and students. According to Linda G. Sharp (pg.2 section 1.3 Electronic documents contains attributes lacking in paper documents)
“Computers maintain information about your documents, referred to as
“metadata,” such as: author’s name, document creation date, date of it last access, etc.” Scheduling appointments only takes a few second unlike paper a document which takes longer, where getting the appointment sheet and see if the doctor will be in or not. Documenting information that need to be looked up and referenced constantly will not happen when using electronically. Electronic document brought helpful tools to overcome the difficulty’s:
“Electronic discovery software; allows users to evaluate and manage electronic documents
• Automated litigation support software; allows users to organize, search, and retrieve e-mail with attachments
• Open, view, print and convert various files types
• Review, acquire and analyze digital information on individual machines or across a wide-area-network
• View and access contents of various file types
• Automated litigation support software; allows users to process electronic files” (pg7, section 1.12, The Difference between Electronic and Paper
Documents) Unfortunately sometimes the