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Study: It's still too easy to make mistakes in pediatric electronic health records

When it comes to giving kids the right dose of medication or properly timing their care, it's still too easy for doctors and nurses to make mistakes ... study. RELATED: Different usability standards ... read more

Misdiagnosis is more common than drug errors or wrong-site surgery

And a new study ... a pass for too long when it comes to diagnostic accuracy. “Physicians don’t know how error-prone they are.” Many, he noted, wrongly believe that the problem is “the other guy” and ... read more

Big data takes on cancer

Regina Barzilay wasn’t looking to study cancer ... they emphasize that it is easy to make mistakes. Sontag warns that as cancer research makes increasing use of real-world evidence from electronic ... read more

Hazards tied to medical records rush

Five years later, the explosion in the use of the electronic records ... still is not fully understood. Academics, policy gurus, health care leaders, and patient safety advocates generally agree that ... read more

How badly designed electronic health records can put patients in danger

“Better designed records could make things better still ... the study says. Those errors were self-reported, so they might not represent the full range of mistakes, Blumenthal says. While this study ... read more

Hospital clinicians’ EHR 'workarounds' pose risk to patient safety and quality, study finds

RELATED: Study: It's still too easy to make mistakes in pediatric electronic health records “When the EHR is not used in the room, patients’ data is not necessarily accurate,” lead researcher Shiri ... read more

A gram of prevention: Providers urged to go metric to avoid medication errors

And the implementation of electronic health records is exacerbating the problem ... making it easier for mistakes to occur. “It's crazy that we still use pounds in healthcare; it's like the Stone Age, ... read more

The Pediatric AI That Outperformed Junior Doctors

The massive study examined the electronic health records (EHR) from nearly 600,000 patients ... yielded some 101.6 million data points for the MLC to devour on its quest for pediatric dominance. This ... read more

Electronic records didn’t eliminate medical errors, they just created some new ones

The mouse slips, and the emergency room doctor clicks on the wrong number, ordering a medication dosage that’s far too large. Elsewhere, in another ER’s electronic health record ... These are easy ... read more

Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Tackles Pressing EHR Issues

A: Physicians have to be careful about using features that make it too easy to make a mistake and document something ... and it hasn't changed with electronic health records. The physician is still ... read more

Trying to Put a Value on the Doctor-Patient Relationship

This shift to electronic health records ... 2,000 to 3,000 patients apiece. Still, he was in the office until 9 every night, making phone calls and filling out paperwork. He began to worry that he ... read more

TRAGEDY TEACHES A LESSON: SHARING DATA SAVES LIVES

It requires hospitals to build annual reports on their mistakes, but exempts those from public records laws, too. Rather than ... and until now, the health-care industry has been slow to make the ... read more