{"id":138,"date":"2016-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/study-highlights-medication-errors-which-slip-into-electronic-health-records\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:34:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:34:39","slug":"study-highlights-medication-errors-which-slip-into-electronic-health-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/study-highlights-medication-errors-which-slip-into-electronic-health-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Study highlights medication errors which slip into electronic health records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical malpractice comes in many different forms, but medication errors are a particularly common occurrence in hospital settings. Electronic systems have been developed to help reduce medication errors, and they have been a huge help. The use of computerized physician order entry systems has been highly encouraged by the federal government, and nearly all hospitals use these systems. \u00a0Unfortunately, there are still too many mistakes made with medication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/04\/07\/hospitals-digital-drug-ordering-boosts-safety-but-can-lead-fatal-errors\/82669450\/\" target=\"_blank\">According<\/a> to a recent report by data analytics company Castlight Health and the hospital rating company LeapFrog Group, computer systems designed to address medication errors still fail to catch around 13 percent of potentially fatal drug-related mistakes. The research also shows that roughly 40 percent of the most serious and common errors are able to slip by these systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The recent study adds to the growing body of evidence showing that improvements still need to be made to computerized physician order entry systems. Previous studies have likewise shown that computerized physician order entry systems sometimes fail to detect inaccurate patient information.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/study-highlights-medication-errors-which-slip-into-electronic-health-records\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Study highlights medication errors which slip into electronic health records\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical malpractice comes in many different forms, but medication errors are a particularly common occurrence in hospital settings. Electronic systems have been developed to help reduce medication errors, and they have been a huge help. The use of computerized physician order entry systems has been highly encouraged by the federal government, and nearly all hospitals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Study highlights medication errors which slip into electronic health records &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; April 27, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Study highlights medication errors which slip into electronic health records - Medical Malpractice - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/study-highlights-medication-errors-which-slip-into-electronic-health-records\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Study highlights medication errors which slip into electronic health records &#8212; 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