The following is an except from an article Published in “Neurology Today.” It includes an interview where Michael Stearns, MD provided feedback on challenges related to the use of electronic health records (EHRs). “THE NOTES READ LIKE JUNK” “EHRs differ so vastly in how they...
Patient Safety and Electronic Health Records — What Could Go Wrong? The Institute of Medicine, in a landmark article published in 1999 titled “To Err is Human,” estimated that nearly 100,000 people each year are killed by preventable medical errors. Electronic health records (EHRs) have the...
