Electronic Health Records Shown to Improve the Quality of Patient Care
“The previous studies on the effects of electronic health records in the outpatient setting have been mixed,” says the study’s lead investigator, Dr. Lisa M. Kern, associate professor of public health and medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. “This is one of the first studies to find a positive association between the use of EHRs and quality of care in a typical community-based setting, using an off-the-shelf electronic health record that has not been extensively tailored and refined. This increases the generalizability of these findings.”