{"id":2111,"date":"2016-03-01T08:51:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T13:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2016-03-01T08:55:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T13:55:31","slug":"ehrs-in-the-er-as-doctors-adapt-concerns-emerge-about-medical-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2111","title":{"rendered":"EHRs In The ER: As Doctors Adapt, Concerns Emerge About Medical Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The mouse slips, and the emergency room doctor clicks on the wrong number, ordering a medication dosage that\u2019s far too large. Elsewhere, in another ER\u2019s electronic health record, a patient\u2019s name isn\u2019t clearly displayed, so the nurse misses it and enters symptoms in the wrong person\u2019s file.<\/p>\n<p>These are easy mistakes to make. As ER doctors and nurses grapple with the transition to digitalized record systems, they seem to happen more frequently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are new categories of patient safety errors\u201d in emergency rooms that didn\u2019t exist before the push to use electronic record systems, said Raj Ratwani, who researches health care safety and is the scientific director for MedStar Health\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicalhumanfactors.net\/#q={}\" target=\"_blank\">National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare<\/a> in Washington, D.C. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/ehrs-in-the-er-as-doctors-adapt-concerns-emerge-about-medical-errors\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=26785850&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-94ttNzDSDX0Xf_gFtg7gxpSAe4eELKStkIldpt1c-lajyPppfSiLADvGLfPZ8SsXo3bJJ-2pfdZiEFrAFb4mWcHEg_HA&amp;_hsmi=26785850\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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