4.1: Electronic Health Records

Adopt electronic health record systems to reduce medical errors, paperwork and administrative costs.

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Better use of information technology would help improve patient care while reducing administrative costs. Paper medical records are difficult to keep track of and are hard to transfer between medical professionals. Important patient information gets lost or overlooked, contributing to possible complications such as unwanted drug interactions. Adopting electronic health records (EHR) would consolidate patient medical information in one place that is accessible to health care providers and would also reduce the amount of time providers spend on purely administrative tasks. Ultimately, health policy experts believe that EHR has the potential to reduce medical errors stemming from inaccurate patient records and make hospitals and clinician practices more efficient.

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