“Last winter, the informatics world was abuzz with a study published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine that found a lack of improvement in healthcare quality measures for patients whose physicians had adopted electronic health records (EHRs). However, as noted by a colleague and I in a follow-up letter to the editor, this study had a number of flaws. Our main complaint was that the quality measures assessed were independent of the EHR implementation, hence any association, whether it would have been positive or negative, was indirect at best. The study was also based on data from a half-decade ago, when our use of EHRs and the systems themselves were much more basic.”
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William Hersh, HitechAnswers, 19 October 2011
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