Patients w/ EHRs Have Fewer Adverse Events

A recent study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) indicates that cardiovascular, pneumonia and surgery patients exposed to a fully electronic health record (EHR) were between 17 and 30 percent less likely to experience in-hospital adverse events.

The study, which was recently published in The Journal of Patient Safety, examined the association of hospitals’ EHR adoption and occurrence rates of adverse events among exposed patients.