In a brief statement answer the 2 questions below:

1. Discuss one of the emerging technology issues and discuss whether it should be included in the definition of the legal health record.

2. What is a hybrid record? What are some benefits and challenges to having a hybrid record?

A hybrid record is a combination of paper and electronic records. Benefits are information is readily accessible in electronic format. There are audit trails to show who accessed portions of a record. Challenges are having portions of the record in different media that need to be retrieved from different areas. If an electronic system goes down the record may be inaccessible. Paper can become cumbersome, misfiled or even lost.