EHRs May Improve Risk Management By:
- Providing clinical alerts and reminders
- Improving aggregation, analysis, and communication of patient information
- Making it easier to consider all aspects of a patient's condition
- Supporting diagnostic and therapeutic decision making
- Gathering all relevant information (lab results, etc.) in one place
- Support for therapeutic decisions
- Enabling evidence-based decisions at point of care
- Preventing adverse events
- Providing built-in safeguards against prescribing treatments that would result in adverse events
- Enhancing research and monitoring for improvements in clinical quality
EHRs May Improve Risk Management By:
- Demonstrating adherence to the best evidence-based practices
- Producing complete, legible records readily available for the defense (reconstructing what actually happened during the point of care)
- Disclosing evidence that suggests informed consent
