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...
EHR Safety
Hospital EHRs frequently miss harmful or potentially fatal errors, according to a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open. To conduct the study...
In November 2018, Mary Ang and her team won $45,000 in the Department of Health & Human Service’s Easy EHR Issue Reporting Challenge. Then she...
The American Medical Association and health system operator MedStar Health have published a report laying out a set of proposals designed to improve EHR safety...
Most people know that I’m a sucker for a well done infographic. Of course, there are a lot of crappy infographics out there, but a well done one is easy...
ONCHIT has released a new set of guidelines and tools designed to help providers make safer use of EMRs and related technology. ONCHIT calls the set of nine...
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...
It seems like this question comes up every couple months about the value of EHR certification. A reader of EMR and HIPAA, QA, recently offered the following...
