Researcher examines the drawbacks of EHRs

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Overall, electronic health records are expected to reduce medical errors, but Dean Sittig has devoted a lot of research to the ways that EHRs themselves can fail.

At an upcoming conference sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, he’ll talk about how to avert those failures by conducting internal audits of clinical information systems and paying attention to red flags, the way physicians do when they examine a patient.

Joseph Goedert
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