Improving electronic health record usability and safety requires transparency. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Improving electronic health record usability and safety requires transparency. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published November 2018

Improving electronic health record usability and safety requires transparency.

Ratwani RM, Hodgkins M, Bates DW. JAMA. 2018 Nov 29; [Epub ahead of print].

Transparency in health care has been heralded as a cornerstone to improvement. This commentary spotlights how electronic health record vendors prevent health care organizations from sharing information about usability and safety issues, hindering efforts to research weaknesses and design improvements for electronic health records.

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