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St. Maarten is poor, with low economic growth rates and high fatality rates. It has one of the highest health care costs in the world. Its location on an English-speaking Caribbean island is the reason. It also has a poor system for tracking records and maintaining patient information, so its electronic health system was developed.

Employees will need a signature at a local machine to print their cards. Once printed, they can bring the cards to their office to hand to their managers or HR department. This is cumbersome and makes managing your own documents difficult for some departments. They must also store documents safely. This is possible only if they are stored in digital files.

When an employee signs in at the signing machine, there is no paper trail, so the company has no way of knowing who did what and when. An electronic health authorization system takes care of all this by recording every transaction and storing it in the computer database. Every time an employee accesses a file, the computer digitally stores that file for the user's own records.

The electronic health authorization system in St. Maarten makes administration and management paperless. In St. Maarten, there is a lack of trained medical personnel, so many procedures are done on the spot. These include x-rays, laboratory tests, vaccinations, medication refills, and other important lab work that can't be done without the proper documentation.

An electronic health record saves a lot of time for a medical company or hospital. Because there are fewer patients to manage and less time to administer treatments, the time required to do so is reduced. Instead of having to do the paperwork, the electronic health record keeps everything in the computer database. The electronic health record records every new patient who needs treatment. It's digitally recorded so that it takes much less time to fill out forms.