For those under the impression that technology will replace doctors, I wouldn’t get ready for the revolution just yet. A new study by a patient safety group has found mistakes and near misses involving electronic health records were analogous to those made with paper-based records with one caveat: Mistakes made with EHRstend to beamplified and can affect a larger group of people.
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority study looked at 3,099reports from Pennsylvania hospitals detailing 3,946 problems. More than 2,700 incidents involved near misses and 15 involved temporary harm to patients. The study focused on incidents from 2004 to 2012 in which electronic health records were the root cause in the event, as opposed to being incidental.
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