Now This Is A Really Disturbing Article That Potentially Undermines Many Of The Benefit Claims Of EHRs.

This appeared last week.Survey: One-third of clinicians say e-prescribing systems give incorrect warnings By Greg SlabodkinPublished December 18 2018, 7:24am ESTElectronic prescribing systems send physicians automated warnings when a potential problem with a prescription is detected. Yet, the accuracy of these decision support algorithms is being questioned.A new survey of members of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology finds that one-third of those surveyed believe their e-prescribing system has provided erroneous warning information —with one-third of this group indicating that the alerts were inaccurate 50 percent or more of the time.Specifically, the categories of information in e-prescribing alerts that clinicians considered inaccurate were dosing range (54.2 percent), drug interactions (50 percent), contraindications (41. 7 percent), dosing frequency (37.5 percent), dosing time (12.5 percent) and indications (12.5 percent).Results of the survey, based on responses... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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