“Wider use of EHRs, along with computerized provider order entry (CPOE), clinical decision support (CDS) and barcode medication administration, could play critical roles in addressing the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals, according to a recent commentary in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
EHRs and related health IT have been promoted as tools to improve patient safety, but the promise remains largely unfulfilled, wrote co-authors Ryan P. Radecki, MD, department of emergency medicine, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, in Greenville, N.C., and Dean F. Sittig, PhD, professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Biomedical Informatics, in a commentary titled “Application of Electronic Health Records to the Joint Commission’s 2011 National Patient Safety Goals”.”
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CMIO, 20 July 2011
Abstract (Radecki 2011)
