A hospital when implementing an EMR is looking for some cost benefit in doing so. One obvious one is reducing medical errors. The other is reducing staff size.

A hospital when implementing an EMR is looking for some cost benefit in doing so. One obvious one is reducing medical errors. The other is reducing staff size. If the physician has to do all the work in entering the medication (drug, dosage, start/stop time, a reason, etc.), someone in the pharmacy department of the hospital is probably not doing it - reduced staff size = more profit for the hospital.