“The government’s expectation that electronic medical records will dramatically improve care coordination across multiple care settings might come up short if changes are not made to both policy and EMR systems themselves, according to a recent study.
The Center for Studying Health System Change found that EMRs are helping coordinate care within a practice but are less helpful with exchanging data between care settings.”
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Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMedNews, 18 January 2010
Abstract (O’Malley 2009)
