No Safety Switch: How Lax Oversight Of Electronic Health Records Puts Patients At

(By Fred Schulte and Erika Fry, Fortune and Kaiser Health News)

In fall 2009, several dozen of the best minds in health information technology huddled at a hotel outside Washington, D.C., to discuss potential dangers of an Obama White House plan to spend billions of tax dollars computerizing medical records.

The health data geeks trusted that transitioning from paper to electronic records would cut down on medical errors, help identify new cures for disease and give patients an easy way to track their health care histories. Continue reading article here…

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