Most doctors satisfied with high-tech patient recordkeeping
40 percent had been alerted to potential medication errors
Trying to read illegible physicians’ handwriting won’t be a problem in the future, as more and more health care systems adapt electronic health record (EHR) technology to keep track of patient data.
A new national survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that most office-based physicians who have switched to EHR are satisfied with their system and say it has improved patient care.