Table 3 A comparison of nursing documentation using paper vs electronic records

Recording the monitoring data

Hand writing, taking about 30 min per shift

Automatic generation of tables and diagrams

Reading patient’s information

Inconvenient to find paper records

Easy to retrieve data in ICIS

Accuracy of data captured from the monitoring devices

Missing data despite best effort

100% accurate

Storage of data

Paper records are easy to lose

Long-term storage in the database in the server

Data retrieval

Takes time and effort

Fast and directly retrieved from the database