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An article by Neil Versel appearing on informationweek.com.
This article discusses electronic health records (EHR's) and states that EHR's may lead to increased malpractice costs for medical professionals.
The article states, "EHRs may reduce the medical liability for certain errors, but it appears they "both create new forms of medical liability and expose existing liability issues in the healthcare environment that might otherwise remain unknown," says a white paper published by the AC Group, a Montgomery, Texas, health IT research and consulting firm." A link to the referenced white paper is included in the article.
The article points out several areas of concern, and possible shortcomings with EHR implementation. The article further states, "In addition, poorly designed and implemented EHRs could make it far easier for malpractice attorneys to press their cases by mining the metadata embedded in patient records. "During the discovery process of a malpractice claim, the printed record shows the current information but not the information that was available to the provider at the time the care was rendered," the report says. "Time synchronization between different electronic charting systems is lacking--for example, one time sequence might indicate that a child was born before the C-section was performed.""
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