Adding patient photos to electronic medical records prevents errors.

At one Colorado children’s hospital, orders mistakenly placed in the wrong electronic file were the second most common source of errors. After adding photos to files, errors of this type dropped from 12 to 3—and those 3 involved files without patient photos. More

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  • patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
  • transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
  • institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
  • vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.

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