The Hazards of Electronic Health Records
Gene Moen
November 3, 2014
There are real and obvious hazards to patients of electronic health records (EHR).
There are real and obvious hazards to patients of electronic health records (EHR).
The New England Journal of Medicine concludes that medical malpractice lawsuits do not result in the practice of "defensive medicine." What they do result in is making it more difficult, and sometimes impossible, for patient victims to recover anything for their harms and losses.
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) can be dangerous to patients when doctors and other healthcare providers spend less time taking a history and more time scanning through often repetitive information in the patient’s electronic chart.
Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems can cause serious diagnostic and treatment errors
The Joint Commission’s review of "sentinel events" in hospitals works to understand why mistakes were made and how hospitals can avoid them in the future.
It is a common misconception that doctors lose their licenses when they settle malpractice claims with injured patients. The truth is doctors continue to practice, sometimes after settling many claims.
Discharging patients too early, often due to financial pressures, can result in "bouncebacks:" patients who end up returning to the hospital. Now there are counter pressures aimed at correcting this.
More technology doesn’t necessarily mean greater patient safety.
A recently published article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has shed some light on the availability for treatment of stroke victims, as well as the barriers there are in getting victims the treatment they need within the time when it makes a difference.