While the vast majority of orders are placed correctly, typically 99.9%, the remaining 0.1% can do a lot of harm if they’re wrong. Aware of this issue...
EMR Safety
A central Pennsylvania health system is embroiled in a court fight with Cerner amid allegations that its EMR technology has created serious patient care...
Problems using the EMR in the emergency department at the Memphis Veterans Affairs facility led to the deaths of two people — and possibly more —...
Over the past several months, nurses have been campaigning to get more training on the EMRs rolling out where they work. Without such training, and...
More than 100 RNs at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center facilities in Oakland and Berkeley have filed reports citing problems with the new Epic system in place...
Dr. Wes, in summary, wonders whether it's unethical to roll out EMRs en masse given the still-unanswered questions about their benefits, their safety and their...
According to a new study, the majority of EMR-related patient care problems stem from issues in how people interact with their system, specifically in...
There’s a really good article by Paul Cerrato on Information Week which tells the story of how a flawed EHR could threaten a patient. While I can’t...
While we're going through a comparatively giddy period of spending on EMRs, and awaiting the Meaningful Use dollars to come, it might be nice to keep the...
The PDR Network in partnership with the iHealth Alliance has launched a new reporting system for adverse EHR events called EHREvent.org. Some of these adverse...