Texas Medical Center experts offer recommendations for safe use of electronic health records

     
                Dean Sittig, Ph.D.                                       Hardeep Singh, M.D.

In a report appearing in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, experts from Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston offer suggestions for developing new national patient safety goals for the use of electronic health records in hospitals, doctors’ offices and clinics.

To view the article co-authored by Hardeep Singh, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and assistant professor of health services research at the VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, and Dean Sittig, Ph.D, professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Biomedical Informatics, visit: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb1205420.