Advisory Board June 8, 2020

EHRs have been implemented in hospitals across the country to help warn physicians of medication errors that could result in adverse drug interactions, allergic reactions, or death—but according to a study published in JAMA last month, the systems fail to detect more than 30% of these errors.

The study

Researchers from the University of Utah Health, Harvard University, and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital used a computerized provider order entry (COPE) tool to analyze the EHR performance of more than 2,000 U.S. hospitals from 2009 to 2018.

For the study, the researchers used the Leapfrog Group’s CPOE EHR evaluation tool, which uses simulated scenarios to test EHRs ability to reduce adverse drug events.

As such, the researchers developed more than...

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