Digitize Medical Records; Waiting Puts Lives at Risk

The Boston Globe
May 7, 2010

When it comes to switching from paper to electronic records, medicine trails many other professions — even though study after study has shown that computerization will save not just money but lives...

Just computerizing doctors’ orders for drugs and tests could reduce that toll substantially. But a 2008 study by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and the New England Healthcare Institute found that just 10 of the state’s 73 hospitals had a computerized system for doctors’ orders. According to the study, 1 in every 10 patients at six community hospitals in the state suffered serious medication mistakes...

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