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: Chicago Medical Malpractice Lawyer BlogElectronic health records may help reduce malpractice suits
By Hurley, McKenna & Mertz
The November 24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine discusses a new study that suggests that the use of electronic health records (EHRs) may help reduce paid malpractice settlements for physicians. An abstract of the article can be found here.
The study examined 1140 practicing Massachusetts physicians in 2005, and after controlling for potential confounding variables, the authors found a trend favoring EHR use--although the result was not statistically significant. In addition, since a small number of physicians in both groups were queried, the authors have only placed "cautious" emphasis on the results.
Full post as published by Chicago Medical Malpractice Lawyer Blog on December 24, 2008 (boomark / email).
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