Do electronic health records create more errors than they prevent?

Soran, Christine S; Simon, Steven R; Jenter, Chelsea A; Volk, Lynn A; Burdick, Elisabeth; Bates, David W; Bates, David Westfall; Poon, Eric

Soran, Christine S; Simon, Steven R; Jenter, Chelsea A; Volk, Lynn A; Burdick, Elisabeth; Bates, David W; Bates, David Westfall; Poon, Eric.

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Soran CS; Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Wellesley, MA, USA.

AMIA Annu Symp Proc ; : 1143, 2008 Nov 06.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18998877

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

While use of electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic prescribing can prevent many medication errors, it may also create opportunities for new errors. Therefore, we conducted a study to examine providers' perception of opportunities for errors introduced by the use of EHRs.

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Medical Errors/prevention & control; Medical Errors/statistics & numerical data; Medical Records Systems, Computerized/statistics & numerical data; Incidence; Massachusetts; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Technology Assessment, Biomedical

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Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Medical Errors Type of study: Etiology_studies / Health_technology_assessment / Incidence_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Country/Region as subject: America do norte Language: En Journal: AMIA Annu Symp Proc Journal subject: INFORMATICA MEDICA Year: 2008 Type: Article Affiliation country: United States

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