[privacy] Study: Electronic Health Records Don't Improve Care

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Reuters AlertNet.

[snip]

Electronic health records -- touted by policymakers as a way to improve the
quality of health care -- failed to boost care delivered in routine doctor
visits, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Of 17 measures of quality assessed, electronic health records made no
difference in 14 measures, according to a study published in the Archives
of Internal Medicine.

The study by researchers at Stanford and Harvard Universities was based on
a survey of 1.8 billion physician visits in 2003 and 2004. Electronic
health records were used in 18 percent of them.

In two areas, better quality was associated with electronic records, while
worse quality was found in one area, they said.

[snip]

More:
http://wap.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N09307454.htm

Also, factor inadequate security into the equation, and you have
a recipe for disaster.

$.02,

- - ferg

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