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Use of EHR Systems Shows Link With Higher Care Quality Scores
A study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine
finds that doctors who use electronic health record systems achieve
higher care quality scores for certain conditions than doctors using
paper records. For example, nearly 66% of physician EHR users met care
quality measures for chlamydia screening, compared with 53% of
physicians using paper records. Healthcare IT News et al. More
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Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
- 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.