Electronic medical records has many advantages. Some of them are:
Health information electronically can help you provide higher quality and safer care for patients while creating tangible enhancements for your organization.
Providing accurate, up-to-date, and complete information about patients at the point of care at any place and any time.
Also, the cost is reduced through decreased paperwork.
But it has a very big disadvantage that in case the data base fails, you would have no record and hence less safe for the patient.