Announcement:
Healthy Body, Healthy Mind
Electronic Health Records & Patient Safety
Patients, and providers alike, strive to make patient safety a priority. Whether it's ensuring prescriptions are written and dispensed correctly, monitoring patients from a distance, or diagnosing patients in rural areas of the country, there are many ways to affect a patient's safety. This episode will highlight some important work of health information pioneers and show how programs such as electronic health records can help make healthcare both safer and more efficient.
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Press Release:
Public TV Airs Series Highlighting Benefits of Electronic Health Records to Patient Safety and Quality of Care
Mission Statement:
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) believes that widespread use of information technology in general, and electronic health records (EHRs) in particular, are critical to successful transformation of health care in the United States. Towards that end, AMIA and its partners have been exploring ways to expand understanding about, support for, and use of EHRs through the
GotEHR? initiative.
GotEHR? is based on two premises. First, EHRs enable high quality, safe, and cost-effective health care services. Second, EHRs can strengthen the relationship between patients and clinicians.
GotEHR? has identified a preliminary set of issues that must be addressed within three key audiences for widespread adoption of EHRs.
With support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and participation from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
