Electronic medical records not a panacea for patient safety problems
Electronic medical records not a panacea for patient safety problemsDecember 12, 2012 9:00 am by Stephanie Baum MedCity News
For those under the impression that technology will replace doctors, I wouldn’t get ready for the revolution just yet. A new study by a patient safety group has found mistakes and near misses involving electronic health records were analogous to those made with paper-based records with one caveat: Mistakes made with EHRstend to beamplified and can affect a larger group of people.
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority study looked at 3,099reports from Pennsylvania hospitals detailing 3,946 problems. More than 2,700 incidents involved near misses and 15 involved temporary harm to patients. The study focused on incidents from 2004 to 2012 in which electronic health records were the root cause in the event, as opposed to being incidental.
Electronic health records are designed to be more efficient than paper-based records, but the two systems have one thing in common: they’re developed and maintained by people. The most common source of problems identified in the study rested with data entry and, to a much lesser extent, with technical glitches.
Read more: http://medcitynews.com/2012/12/electronic-medical-records-not-a-panacea-for-patient-safety-problems/#ixzz2GXkYsi3f 看了这篇文章，让我想到再好的感控软件也得由人来掌控啊，所以人才是第一生产力
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