<![CDATA[The transition from conventional medical records to Electronic Medical Records (EMR) raises legal issues regarding its status and evidentiary strength in medical civil disputes. This normative legal research, using statutory and conceptual approaches, examines EMR's legal standing, evidentiary value, and influencing factors. Key references include Law No. 17/2023, Law No. 1/2024 (ITE Law), Minister of Health Regulation No. 24/2022, and civil procedure regulations. The findings confirm that while EMR is a legally valid electronic document, its evidentiary force is not automatically absolute. In civil medical disputes, EMR may establish the chronology of healthcare services, medical actions, diagnoses, treatments, examination results, informed consent, and other relevant information. Nevertheless, EMR alone does not establish medical negligence or malpractice because compliance with professional standards and causation must generally be assessed through other evidence, particularly expert testimony. Therefore, stronger EMR governance, authentication, audit trails, data security, and procedures for examining electronic evidence are necessary to provide legal certainty in resolving civil medical disputes before courts. Keywords : Electronic Medical Records, evidence, civil medical disputes, electronic evidence, courts.]]>
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