Bipartisan Policy Center May 23, 2017

More than 15 years ago, the Institute of Medicine released two landmark reports that catalyzed efforts to improve patient safety and quality in the U.S. health care system. Both reports, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, highlighted the critical role that health information technology (IT) plays in improving the safety and quality of health care.

Since that time, more than $36 billion in federal investments have been made in electronic health records with the goal of improving health...

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