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EHRs and Patient Safety: Where Do We Stand?
For The Record August, 2019
This polarizing issue is not being settled anytime soon.
A decade ago, the HITECH Act spurred the rapid transition from paper to electronic records. Since then, EHRs have become ubiquitous to the point where nearly all hospitals are on board with the technology.
Ben Moscovitch, HIT director for The Pew Charitable Trusts, says EHRs have improved the quality and safety of care in many ways—such as by alerting clinicians to medication allergies. However, these digital records haven’t addressed some of the inherent safety issues with paper charts and have actually introduced new challenges that didn’t previously exist.
“EHRs are transforming the way patients receive care, in particular by giving clinicians new tools to provide better-quality and safer care, like helping...
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