The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released a study that suggests that patients in hospitals that have full electronic health record coverage experience fewer adverse events, including hospital-acquired infections, however just 13% of patients had fully electronic health records over the course of the study. [Also: CMS awards $110M for patient safety] "To assess the role of EHRs in preventing adverse events, the researchers measured to what extent care received by patients in the 1,351 hospitals was captured by a fully electronic EHR," said Amy Helwig, MD, deputy director of AHRQ's Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, and Edwin Lomotan, MD, medical officer and chief of clinical informatics at AHRQ's Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement, in a blog post. In an article published by Health Affairs on Monday, researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, University of California, San Francisco, and Stanford University, examined data collected between 2005 to 2011 at more
The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released a study that suggests that patients in hospitals that have full electronic health record coverage experience fewer adverse events, including hospital-acquired infections, however just 13% of patients had fully electronic health records over the course of the study. In an article published by Health Affairs on Monday, researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, University of California, San Francisco, and Stanford University, examined data collected between 2005 to 2011 at more