“Emergency rooms fully equipped with EHRs have been credited with treating patients who eventually have shorter hospital stays than hospitals that have paper or basic EHRs, according to a new study.
The study, conducted by Michael Furukawa, an assistant professor at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, looked at data from the 2006 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.”
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Patty Enrado, EHRWatch, 23 August 2010
Abstract (Furukawa 2010)

