Do electronic health records create more errors than they prevent?

Christine S Soran; Steven R Simon; Chelsea A Jenter; Lynn A Volk; Elisabeth Burdick; David W Bates; Eric Poon

Do electronic health records create more errors than they prevent?

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008 Nov 6:1143.

Authors

Christine S Soran¹, Steven R Simon, Chelsea A Jenter, Lynn A Volk, Elisabeth Burdick, David W Bates, Eric Poon

Affiliation

¹ Partners HealthCare System, Inc., Wellesley, MA, USA.

PMID: 18998877

Abstract

While use of electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic prescribing can prevent many medication errors, it may also create opportunities for new errors. Therefore, we conducted a study to examine providers' perception of opportunities for errors introduced by the use of EHRs.

MeSH terms

Incidence
Massachusetts
Medical Errors / prevention & control*
Medical Errors / statistics & numerical data*
Medical Records Systems, Computerized / statistics & numerical data*
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Technology Assessment, Biomedical