Question: Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the specific points made in the reading passage.
In the United States, medical information about patients traditionally has been recorded and stored on paper forms. However, there are efforts to persuade doctors to adopt electronic medical record systems in which information about patients is stored in electronic databases rather than on paper. It is argued that storing patients’ medical records in electronic databases has several advantages over traditional paper-based record keeping.Reducing CostsFirst, the use of electronic records can help reduce costs by saving money on storing and transferring medical records. While paper records require a significant amount of storage space, electronic medical records take up virtually no space. Moreover, by having patients’ records computerized in databases, doctors can easily access the records from almost anywhere and can easily duplicate and transfer them when necessary. This costs much less than copying, faxing, or transporting paper records from one location to another.Preventing ErrorsSecond, electronic medical records are crucial to reducing the chances of medical errors. Illegible handwriting, improper transcription of data, and nonstandard organization of paper records have caused errors that in some cases have had serious consequences for the patients’ health. In contrast, electronic records are associated with standardization of forms and legible computer fonts and thus minimize the possibility of human error.Aiding ResearchThird, electronic medical records can greatly aid medical research by making it possible to gather large amounts of data from patient records. It is often impractical, impossible, or prohibitively expensive to manually go through thousands of patients’ paper records housed in doctors’ offices. However, with the existence of electronic medical records, it would be simple to draw out the needed information from the medical databases because the databases are already formatted for data collection. Once in the electronic system, the records could be accessed from any research location.
The speaker and the author hold divergent attitude towards whether patients' medial records in electronic databases have the benefits of reducing costs, preventing errors and aiding research. The writer puts forward that the electronic prescriptions have the three advantages over traditional paper-based record keeping. However, the professor presents her refutation in the lecture.
Firstly, it is said in the reading material that the use of electronic records can reduce the cost of storing and transferring medical records, and can be accessible to doctors almost anywhere and anytime. To rebut the idea, the lecture suggests that although there are electronic version, doctors still have to store the paper-based records for some legal reasons. Thus, the assumption of the author is severely weakened.
Secondly, even though the reading passage proposes that using electronic medial records can reduce the chances of medical errors by typing standardized letters, the professor maintains that this benefit is uncertain. In specific, doctors are still used to writing the prescriptions by pen and paper, and it is the staff members who have to first interpret doctors' poor handwriting and then input them into the online database. By doing this, the errors caused by medical errors, illegible handwriting and improper transcription of data remain there unsolved.
Thirdly, the author of the reading indicates that the medical records can form a big database which can be used for medical research, whereas, the lecturer contends that it is very difficult to utilize the database for scientific research. Accessing to the database have to obey the strict privacy law in the U.S., and if one want to use the data in the database, she or he has to first get the permission from both the patients and the doctors and have to follow a very strict and complicated process. Otherwise, the researcher is not granted to use the data.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 282, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'versions'?
Suggestion: versions
...ests that although there are electronic version, doctors still have to store the paper-...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly, thus, whereas, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1631.0 1373.03311258 119% => OK
No of words: 307.0 270.72406181 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31270358306 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18585898806 4.04702891845 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76024374994 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 145.348785872 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537459283388 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 506.7 419.366225166 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.5215793837 49.2860985944 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.916666667 110.228320801 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5833333333 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.75 7.06452816374 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.131167366478 0.272083759551 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0467617592432 0.0996497079465 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0409240029456 0.0662205650399 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0846610312222 0.162205337803 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0218485376781 0.0443174109184 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 13.3589403974 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 53.8541721854 70% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.56 8.42419426049 113% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 63.6247240618 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.7273730684 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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