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ArticleRisk management and healthcare policy2011

Benefits and drawbacks of electronic health record systems.

Nir Menachemi, Taleah H Collum

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Article in Risk management and healthcare policy, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 304 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

304 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. The utility of website-based quality improvement tools for health professionals: a systematic review.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2024
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  9. Which Electronic Health Record System Should We Use? A Systematic Review.Medical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre · 2022
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  16. Data Privacy in Medical Informatics and Electronic Health Records: A Bibliometric Analysis.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nir MenachemiDepartment of Health Care, Organization and Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Taleah H Collum

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 that was signed into law as part of the "stimulus package" represents the largest US initiative to date that is designed to encourage widespread use of electronic health records (EHRs). In light of the changes anticipated from this policy initiative, the purpose of this paper is to review and summarize the literature on the benefits and drawbacks of EHR systems. Much of the literature has focused on key EHR functionalities, including clinical decision support systems, computerized order entry systems, and health information exchange. Our paper describes the potential benefits of EHRs that include clinical outcomes (eg, improved quality, reduced medical errors), organizational outcomes (eg, financial and operational benefits), and societal outcomes (eg, improved ability to conduct research, improved population health, reduced costs). Despite these benefits, studies in the literature highlight drawbacks associated with EHRs, which include the high upfront acquisition costs, ongoing maintenance costs, and disruptions to workflows that contribute to temporary losses in productivity that are the result of learning a new system. Moreover, EHRs are associated with potential perceived privacy concerns among patients, which are further addressed legislatively in the HITECH Act. Overall, experts and policymakers believe that significant benefits to patients and society can be realized when EHRs are widely adopted and used in a "meaningful" way.

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computerized order entryEHRhealth information exchangehealth information technologyHITECH

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PMID22312227
PMCPMC3270933

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