The study found that a "wide variation in the safety performance of operational EHR systems remains across a large sample of hospitals and EHR vendors."
A comprehensive new study about electronic health records concluded safety performance has "increased modestly" over a 10-year span, but variations among hospitals and vendors provide opportunities for improvement.
The national trends study of electronic health records, or EHRs, used data from a test administered by the nonprofit health industry watchdog Leapfrog Group. The test "uses simulated medication orders that have either injured or killed patients previously to evaluate how well hospital EHRs could identify medication errors with potential for patient harm," according to the study, published in late May at JAMA Network Open.
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Mike Scarcella
Mike Scarcella is a senior editor in Washington on ALM Media's regulatory desk. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter: @MikeScarcella. Mike works on a slate of newsletters: Supreme Court Brief | Higher Law | Compliance Hot Spots | Labor of Law.
