The impact of electronic health records on diagnosis. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The impact of electronic health records on diagnosis. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Review
 
• Published September 2017

The impact of electronic health records on diagnosis.

Graber ML, Byrne C, Johnston D. Diagnosis. 2017 Sep 8; [Epub ahead of print].

Health information technologies (IT) are seen to facilitate diagnostic improvement. This review discusses opportunities and problems that health IT can bring to diagnostic safety. The authors recommend ways to safely use health IT to improve diagnosis.

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