Electronic health records (EHRs) have numerous benefits, but are also besieged with risks. ealth care leaders must analyze potential risks throughout all EHR stages. Lessons learned from an EHR implementation may assist nurse leaders in avoiding disputes and risk. Strategies for reducing risk, liability, and ultimately litigation associated with EHR implementation are discussed.

nBACKGROUND: Electronic health records (EHRs) may reduce medical errors and improve care, but can complicate clinical encounters. OBJECTIVE To describe hospital-based physicians' perceptions of the impact of EHRs on patient-physician interactions and contrast these findings against office-based physicians' perceptionsMethods: We performed a qualitative analysis of comments submitted in respon...

Patients' health related information is stored in electronic health records (EHRs) by health service providers. These records include sequential documentation of care episodes in the form of clinical notes. EHRs are used throughout the health care sector by professionals, administrators and patients, primarily for clinical purposes, but also for secondary purposes such as decision support and r...

Using longitudinal data in electronic health records (EHRs) for post-marketing adverse drug event (ADE) detection allows for monitoring patients throughout their medical history. Machine learning methods have been shown to be efficient and effective in screening health records and detecting ADEs. How best to exploit historical data, as encoded by clinical events in EHRs is, however, not very we...

Adolescents stand to benefit greatly from improved electronic access to reliable health information and health care. Use of electronic health records (EHRs) can potentially improve health care accessibility, effectiveness, and safety but can create challenges for the ongoing protection of patient confidentiality and privacy. Protection of adolescent confidentiality as dictated by applicable law...

EHRs (Electronic health records) are a source of big data that offer wealth clinical patient data. However, because these notes free-form texts, writing formats and styles range greatly amongst various records, text from eHRs, such as discharge rapid notes, provide analysis challenges. This research proposed novel technique in electronic healthcare based on feature selection classification util...

This study aimed at identifying the issue, challenges and opportunities from the health consumers in Tanzania towards interoperability of electronic health records. Reaching that level of seamless data sharing among Hospitals needs the cooperation of all stakeholders especially the health consumer whose data are the ones to be shared. Without their acceptance that means there is nothing to shar...

Adverse drug events (ADEs) are responsible for unnecessary patient deaths making them a major public health issue. Literature estimates 1% of ADEs recorded in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are reported to federal databases making EHRs a vital source of ADE-related information. Using Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC)'s EHRs, we developed an algorithm to mine for vaccine-related ADEs o...

In traditional health care interactions, clinicians are the holders of patients’ medical information. In recent years, this information has become increasingly likely to be in a structured electronic health record (EHR), the control of which lies with the physician. The general argument for EHRs is that they can improve quality of patient care by better coordination of information— indeed the p...