A new study in the United States shows that changing hospitals from paper medical records to using electronic medical records can help improve the quality of care and reduce patient mortality.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and other institutions analyzed the situation of 3,249 hospitals across the United States from 2008 to 2013, including the extent of hospital electronic medical records promotion and mortality within 30 days of hospitalization for patients over 65 years of age. At the beginning of the study, some university affiliated hospitals in the United States began to adopt electronic medical records, but many American hospitals did not use electronic medical records until the government's financial support until 2009.
The study found that the US hospitals were not ideal during the transition period to switch to electronic medical records, which led to a slight increase in patient mortality in the short term. But after the transition period, the situation began to improve. Each electronic medical record content implemented in the early stage of the study, including medication lists and electronic prescriptions, will correspondingly reduce the annual mortality rate of patients by 0.09 percentage points. Not only that, as electronic medical records continue to add new content, each additional new content will also reduce the annual mortality rate of patients by 0.21 percentage points.
The study, published in the US Journal of Healthcare, pointed out that the decline in mortality mainly occurred in small and non-teaching hospitals in the United States, which means that the promotion of electronic medical records should focus on small hospitals.
Source: Xinhuanet
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