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It's time to care about diagnostic errors, and EMRs can help
Did you happen to catch the item in FierceHealthcare on Tuesday about diagnostic errors in medicine? "Diagnostic errors are the outcasts of the patient safety movement. Patient safety advocates have
Federal panel wants national reporting on EMR software, data errors
The Adoption/Certification Workgroup of the federal Health IT Policy Committee wants to require hospitals and physicians to report "hazards and near-misses" as a result of software malfunctions,
HIT progress 'stunningly slow' in 10 years since IOM report
Tuesday marked the 10th anniversary of the publication of To Err Is Human, the eye-opening Institute of Medicine report with the now-familiar assertion that preventable medical errors in U.S.
