Do electronic health records create more errors than they prevent?
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.
Soran
Christine S
CS
Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Wellesley, MA, USA.
Simon
Steven R
SR
Jenter
Chelsea A
CA
Volk
Lynn A
LA
Burdick
Elisabeth
E
Bates
David W
DW
Bates
David Westfall
DW
Poon
Eric
E
D015994:Incidence; D008404:Massachusetts; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical