EHR Use May Benefit Diabetes Patients
As healthcare delivery evolves to be more efficient and cost-effective, health technology continues to show the biggest promise.
As healthcare delivery evolves to be more efficient and cost-effective, health technology continues to show the biggest promise. Integration of “
Based on research conducted by the Kaiser Permanente Northern California system, EHR implementation and use over a 5-year period reduced emergency room visits by 5.5%, lowered overall hospitalizations by 5.2%, and decreased non-elective hospitalizations by 6.1%.
“EHRs are becoming increasingly common and will soon be the standard of medical care. It makes intuitive sense that better real-time access to information will lead to higher quality of care, especially in a disease such as diabetes that requires a broad-based multifactorial approach,” Gregory A. Nichols, PhD, said in a
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“Hospitals attesting to meaningful use are not simply doing the minimum necessary to receive the incentives; instead, the vast majority of patients in these hospitals are being cared for using EHRs,” wrote the authors. “For policy makers, this finding should offer reassurance that they selected thresholds that were achievable. It also suggests that an approach of gradually raising the threshold may not be necessary, and future criteria could instead focus on new uses of EHRs that may deliver greater improvements in both the quality and costs of care.”
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