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Future of Electronic Health Records: Supporting Clinicians and Patients

“Future of Electronic Health Records: Supporting Clinicians and Patients,” is a video call to action from Harvard's malpractice insurer to make major improvements to electronic health record systems. Startling statistics help tell the story, along with dramatization of common challenges leading to clinician burnout. Interviews with experts in human factors, clinician burnout, and health IT provide ideas on how to turn things around.

Reducing the Occurrence of Malpractice Cases Involving Insufficient Documentation

To prevent documentation related cases, consider chart audits along with education regarding what critical information is too often not captured within the patient’s record(s).

Cures Act: Opening Notes

As patients’ access to their medical information expands, thoughtful attention to what is documented and how patients perceive what they see is an increasingly important component of patient safety and the avoidance of allegations of negligence. CONTINUE READING >

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Tips When Using EHRs Tips to help avoid the unintended consequences ushered in with EHRs

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Tips When Using EHRs

December 19, 2014

Computer systems that don’t “talk” to each other, test results that aren’t routed properly, and mistakes caused by faulty data entry or copying and pasting. These are some of the unintended consequences ushered in with EHRs.
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Malpractice Risks Associated with Electronic Health Records Goal: Get more information on health IT-related problems using a mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) analysis of EHR-related harm cases submitted to a large, national database of malpractice suits and claims.

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Malpractice Risks Associated with Electronic Health Records

June 13, 2017

Read this study about whether or not EHR use has unintended consequences that detract from the safety of health care.
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Better, Safer Care: Imagining a Medical Record of the Future Our film presents an alternate vision for a streamlined and integrated clinical experience; one where physician, patient, and EMR work as a team to provide a significantly automated, safer, and efficient experience.

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Better, Safer Care: Imagining a Medical Record of the Future

November 5, 2012

Can we move today’s electronic medical record model the from a data-repository model, to one that truly helps clinicians in the middle of their workflow?
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Making EHRs Safer for Patients and Providers EHRs can be safer for all

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Making EHRs Safer for Patients and Providers

April 1, 2011

The holy grail of health care’s technical revolution is finding HIT solutions that guide clinicians through logical and evidence-based decision making, and then ensure that providers and patients follow the appropriate steps to close the loop for optimal diagnosis and treatment.
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Electronic Health Records

Future of Electronic Health Records: Supporting Clinicians and Patients

Reducing the Occurrence of Malpractice Cases Involving Insufficient Documentation

Cures Act: Opening Notes

Featured

Tips When Using EHRs

Malpractice Risks Associated with Electronic Health Records

Better, Safer Care: Imagining a Medical Record of the Future

Making EHRs Safer for Patients and Providers