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Study shows EHRs make little difference in cost, quality

“A new study, led by Ashish Jha, MD, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Catherine DesRoches of Massachusetts General Hospital, found little difference in cost and quality among the 3,000 hospitals that were in various stages of electronic health record initiatives. If you just stopped at the headline, it’s great fodder for those who believe EHRs are over-hyped. But when you read the details of the study’s findings, it’s actually a story in favor of EHRs.”

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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News, 19 November 2009
Article (Jha 2009)

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