EHR Intelligence October 11, 2017
Providers hesitant to engage in innovative EHR use lose opportunities to save money and improve patient safety.
Innovative EHR use can solve a host of healthcare’s biggest problems, according to a new op-ed in Harvard Business Review.
Virginia Mason’s James Bender, MD, and Robert S. Mecklenburg, MD, highlighted how innovative EHR use presents new opportunities to reduce excessive spending, medical errors, and unnecessary surgeries.
“Every day, online retailers use computer-based transactions to guide us through stepwise sequences to buy a pair of jeans, apply for a credit card, or book a flight. As we follow these electronic pathways, we can’t really go wrong: If we omit critical inputs or make an inappropriate choice, the program does not allow us to...