The development and impact of adopting electronic health records in the United States: A brief overview and implications for nursing education

Abstract

At present, health-care systems in the United States face enormous challenges in providing quality care, characterized by safe, effective, efficient, patientcentered, timely, and equitable care while containing health-care costs [1,2]. To understand and address patients' increasingly complicated health-care needs, we need safe access to quality information that is characterized by integrity, reliability, and accuracy [3], and establish mutually beneficial relationships among a multidisciplinary team of professionals [4].Traditional paper-based clinical workflow produces many issues such as illegible handwriting, inconvenient access, the possibility of computational prescribing errors, inadequate patient hand-offs, and drug administration errors. These problems can lead to medical errors, omissions, and duplications and, ultimately, poor patient outcomes and compromised quality of care [2].Electronic health records (EHR) is a major achievement in the health information technology [5]. It is deemed a promising solution to improve the interoperability of patients' information across health-care settings and achieve a more cost-effective, safer, and higher quality of care [3,6]. Electronic medical records

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