Effectiveness of telegram bot medical records with dentistry manual status card for forensic identification purposes

Background: Based on PERMENKES 2022 Number 24, it states that all health facilities are required to use electronic medical records in accordance with the regulation of the Minister of Health by December 31, 2023. However, electronic medical records are difficult to implement at every generation level. Researchers utilize the habit of sending massages using instant messaging applications that have become a habit of every generation to create telegram bot medical records.Purpose: To determine and compare the effectiveness of Telegram bot medical records with manual dental status cards on forensic identification with consideration of aspects of efficiency, accuracy, and speed of access to medical record data using the Telegram bot application and manual filling.Discussion: The type of research used is observational analytic using cross-sectional study design. The data obtained were then analyzed and interpreted. To test the hypothesis using Kruskal Wallis test with variable data scale is ratio. The significance value resulting from the Kruskal Wallis test on data on filling time, calling time, and accuracy of filling telegram bot medical records and manual medical records is 0.000 sig. the P-value <0.05 means that there is significant difference.Conclusions: Telegram bot medical record is more effective than dentistry manual status card for forensic identification purposes.