Electronic health record patient safety issues persist long after 'go live' date

Patient safety issues related to electronic health records persist long after the 'go live' date, concludes research. EHRs can improve the quality of patient care, but recent evidence suggests that their use can also prompt new patient safety concerns, such as when computer glitches cause clinical decision support to suddenly stop working or when network outages occur. Sophisticated monitoring systems are needed to unearth the complex mix of human and technological causes behind these problems, ...