Why adopt electronic health records?(GUEST EDITORIAL)
Publication: Internal Medicine News
Publication Date: 15-DEC-04
Author: Bates, David W.
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Information technology can make a difference in the quality of health care. It's not the whole story; it's not a panacea, but it can help us deliver better care.
The evidence that electronic health records provide benefits falls in several domains:
* Availability. Electronic health records are available 24/7. They are legible. More than one user can view them at a time, which turns out to be quite an advantage.
Data are available from remote locations to be viewed by covering physicians. I feel like I can take much better care in my own practice when I'm covering for another physician because I can look up the patient's data in less than a minute and get a pretty good sense of what's going on.
Electronic health records can be made available to others. That brings up security issues that we probably haven't worked out as well as we...
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