Patient Safety Issues Associated with Electronic Health Records: A Conversation with Dr. David Troxel (October 31st)
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Listen Now Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were largely adopted after 2009, or after the Congress passed the HITECH Act that appropriated $30 billion in financial incentives for hospital and physicians to migrate from paper to digital records. In theory the policy made/makes perfect sense. Adopting information technology/IT would over time create efficiencies, drive better care coordination and overall improve care quality and reduce unnecessary spending or reduce spending growth. However, for numerous reasons moving to widespread use of EHRs has presented/continues to present numerous challenges and problems, some anticipated and some not, that meant putting patients at risk of medical harm, or essentially swapped out one set of problems (associated with paper records) for another set of problems (associated with EHRs).
Patient Safety Issues Associated with Electronic Health Records: A Conversation with Dr. David Troxel (October 31st)
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Patient Safety Issues Associated with Electronic Health Records: A Conversation with Dr. David Troxel (October 31st)
Listen Now Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were largely adopted after 2009, or after the Congress passed the HITECH Act that appropriated $30 billion in financial incentives for hospital and physicians to migrate from paper to digital records. In theory the policy made/makes perfect sense. Adopting information technology/IT would over time create efficiencies, drive better care coordination and overall improve care quality and reduce unnecessary spending or reduce spending growth. However, for numerous reasons moving to widespread use of EHRs has presented/continues to present numerous challenges and problems, some anticipated and some not, that meant putting patients at risk of medical harm, or essentially swapped out one set of problems (associated with paper records) for another set of problems (associated with EHRs).