Patient Engagement June 10, 2020
Evidence underscores the role patients can play in patient safety when they are granted patient data access.
One in five patients find what they say is a mistake in their own medical records, and two in five patients perceive those errors as serious, according to a group of researchers from Boston, Los Angeles, Pennsylvania, and Seattle. These findings underscore the importance of opening up patient data access and patient-generated error reports.
Patients are in a strong position to detect medical errors and mistakes in the medical record, an issue that afflicts at least half of EHRs, most estimates state. The push for better data transparency and patient data access has sparked a movement toward patient empowerment in the patient safety...
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