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EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems
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Diverse stakeholders--clinicians, researchers, business leaders, policy makers, and the public--have good reason to believe that the effective use of electronic health care records (EHRs) is essential to meaningful advances in health care quality and patient safety. However, several reports have documented the potential of EHRs to contribute to health care system flaws and patient harm. As organizations (including small hospitals and physician practices) with limited resources for care-process transformation, human-factors engineering, software safety, and project management begin to use EHRs, the chance of EHR-associated harm may increase. The authors propose a coordinated set of steps to advance the practice and theory of safe EHR design, implementation, and continuous improvement. These include setting EHR implementation in the context of health care process improvement, building safety into the specification and design of EHRs, safety testing and reporting, and rapid communication of EHR-related safety flaws and incidents.
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“In those organizations, including those of the authors, clinicians regard easy access to test results, clinician observations, clinical-decision support, and e-messaging as vital to care quality and patient safety.”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > EHR Safety and Effectiveness
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“The third study, conducted in a subpopulation of a children's hospital, documented a doubling of mortality (from 2.8% to 6.6%) after CPOE implementation.23”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > EHR Safety and Effectiveness
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“The identification of EHR-related flaws increases markedly with every new software deployment (both original implementations and upgrades).22,42”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > Prevent and Manage EHR-related Incidents
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“The fourth study, conducted in the same hospital, showed no significant change in mortality.24”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > EHR Safety and Effectiveness
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“Although the first two studies have been widely cited as showing CPOE benefits, neither showed improvements in patient outcomes.20 -22”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > EHR Safety and Effectiveness
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“Complicating matters, the health care literature documents the potential of EHRs to contribute to safety incidents and patient harm.1,23,30 -33”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > EHR-related Safety Flaws
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“Although some measures of error showed improvement, overall safety and effectiveness have been addressed in only five studies.[21][22][23][24][25]”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > EHR Safety and Effectiveness
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“Assessing the overall safety and effectiveness of EHR use is made difficult by the limited research literature.”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > EHR Safety and Effectiveness
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“Published reports of CPOE-related errors have provided initial, high-level typologies of safety incidents.30,44,45”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > Communicate Safety Flaws and Incidents
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“Because of this extensive customization (a type of overfitting), reports of EHR-related effectiveness from these organizationsalthough important as efficacy studies-may not be generalizable to the less customized EHRs and EHR implementations that most organizations will use.”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > Introduction
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- Rests on an assumption: The decades-long iterative development of early EHRs improved the fit between the software and the organization, users, and care processes.
- Rests on an assumption: In the first organizations to use EHRs, software designers knew the organization, the users, and the care processes the EHR was meant to support.
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“Because EHRs are particularly complex technology innovations-affecting workflows, communications, job definitions, working conditions, and job security-demonstrat-ing and improving their safety is critically important.[5][6][7][8][9][10]”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > Introduction
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“The fifth study found that only thirty-one percent of physicians and fifty-six percent of nurses believed that the EHR contributed to improvement of care overall.25”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > EHR Safety and Effectiveness
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“This approach will reinforce the fact that safe and effective use of an EHR requires new organizational policies, processes, work systems, job descriptions, and education.38,39”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > Use EHRs as Tools for Health Care Process Improvement
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“In fact, the second study reported an increase in medication errors and adverse drug events, which was reversed after an improvement in the CPOE interface.22”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > EHR Safety and Effectiveness
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“A more recent systematic review of health care information technology (largely EHRs) by Chaudhry et al. concluded that in most health care settings, it may be difficult “to determine what benefits to expect from health information technology use and how best to implement the system in order to maximize the value derived.”27”
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“The few available studies have largely been conducted by the developers of the EHRs and have focused on the effect of order entry (CPOE) systems on a limited number of error types.[17][18][19][20]”
§ EHR Safety: The Way Forward to Safe and Effective Systems > EHR Safety and Effectiveness
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“A systematic review of outpatient CPOE systems found only four studies that addressed safety and concluded, “the relatively small number of evaluation studies published to date do not provide adequate evidence that CPOE systems enhance safety and reduce cost in the outpatient settings.”28”
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Widespread EHR adoption is necessary to achieve many American health care goals, including better care quality and patient safety.
“There is a growing consensus that widespread adoption of electronic health care records (EHRs) is essential to achieving many American health care goals, including improved care quality and patient safety”
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The benefits of well-managed EHRs are probably substantial.
“Although the benefits of well-managed EHRs may seem obvious and are likely substantial”
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Few EHR risk-management strategies have been published.
“Few EHR risk-management strategies have been published.”
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No published research identifies a comprehensive set of effective risk-reduction activities.
“In the absence of published research that identifies a comprehensive set of effective risk-reduction activities”
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Most EHR-related safety flaws are found and fixed before they cause a safety incident.
“Most of these flaws are identified and mitigated before a safety incident occurs.”
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A small fraction (anecdotally less than 0.1%) of flaws are discovered only after they contribute to an incident.
“A small number (anecdotally, Ͻ0.1%) are discovered after they contribute to an incident (for example, a medication administration error).”
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Smaller hospitals and most physician practices likely lack the resources to mount such an initiative.
“Smaller hospitals and most physician practices are unlikely to have the resources to mount such an initiative.”
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The decades-long iterative development of early EHRs improved the fit between the software and the organization, users, and care processes.
“The decades-long, iterative development process that these early EHRs went through improved the fit between the software and the organization, the users, and the care processes.”
The paper relies on this without support.
In the first organizations to use EHRs, software designers knew the organization, the users, and the care processes the EHR was meant to support.
“In the first organizations to use EHRs, software designers knew the organization, the EHR's users, and the specific care processes the EHR was meant to support.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Changing a complex EHR after development or implementation is extremely difficult, error-prone, and expensive.
“Changing a software system as complex as an EHR after it has been developed (or implemented) is enormously difficult, error-prone, and expensive.”
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Local EHR implementation and continuous-improvement teams make many decisions that can create system-safety flaws.
“Local EHR implementation and continuous-improvement teams make many decisions-regarding organizational policies, work processes, and software configurations-that have the potential to create system-safety flaws.”
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Some EHR flaws originate in the vendor's software creation process, while others come from the customer or from interactions between the EHR and other systems; the distinction is often hard to make.
“Some of these flaws will turn out to be related to the vendor's software creation process; others will have been introduced by the customer or by interactions between the EHR and other health care systems.Often, this distinction will be difficult to make.”
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A well-designed taxonomy of EHR-related system safety flaws and safety incidents has not yet been developed.
“The clearinghouse should be based on a well-designed taxonomy of EHR-related system safety flaws and safety incidents, which has yet to be developed.”
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Knowledge about how to develop, implement, and continuously improve EHRs for patient safety is currently limited and inaccessible to most health care organizations.
“Knowledge of how to develop, implement, and continuously improve EHRs for patient safety is currently limited and not accessible to most health care organizations.”
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“However, existing classifications, including AIMS and the ICPS, 18 fall short with respect to computer-related incidents as this source of risk has yet to be systematically examined.20”
From An analysis of computer-related patient safety incidents to inform the development of a classification (2010) · cites this paper as [20]
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“Indeed, incident reporting to facilitate rapid communication of safety flaws and critical events arising from computer use is one of seven steps which have been proposed to improve the safety of healthcare IT. 20”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Walker, J. M., Carayon, P., Leveson, N., Paulus, R. A., Tooker, J., Chin, H., Bothe, A., & Stewart, W. F.
- Affiliations
- Geisinger Health System (US)
- University of Wisconsin System (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- American College of Physicians (US)
- Kaiser Permanente (US)
- Geisinger Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Walker, J. M.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2008-05-01
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 272-277
- ISSN
- 1067-5027 (ISSN-L)
- 1527-974X
- PMC
- PMC2409999
- OpenAlex
- W30038292
- Semantic Scholar
- e79e16206458fd09a10c7cd9fb2a73a9d5dfa8f9
- Cited by
- 113
- References
- 52
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 24.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Medical Coding and Health Information
- Keywords
- electronic health records, patient safety, EHR design, EHR implementation, healthcare process improvement, human factors engineering, software safety, safety testing, safety reporting, incident communication, small hospitals, physician practice, quality of care
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Safety, Software, Medical Records Systems, Computerized, Medical Errors
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