title: Do electronic health records create more errors than they prevent?
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.
authors.affiliation: Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Wellesley, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Christine S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Soran
authors.forename: Steven R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Simon
authors.forename: Chelsea A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Jenter
authors.forename: Lynn A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Volk
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Burdick
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Bates
authors.forename: David Westfall
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Bates
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Poon
mesh_terms: 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