“A leading academic has dealt a major blow to the Government’s embattled electronic patient record rollout, after publishing a major global study claiming systems of its kind hamper rather than improve clinical care.
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary healthcare at University College London, led a review of hundreds of previous studies from all over the world, which found that large systems such as that being developed by Connecting for Health, are less efficient than locally-based systems and often less useful than paper records.”
Article
Ian Quinn, Pulse, 14 December 2009
Article (Greenhalgh 2009)
