Reuters reports the results of a interesting study: “patients treated in hospitals that ranked highest in use of health information technology to manage patient records and physician notes were 15 percent less likely to die compared with patients in hospitals that ranked lower.“
It also further notes that “If these results were to hold for all hospitals in the United States, computerizing notes and records might have the potential to save 100,000 lives annually,” Dr. Neil Poe of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, who worked on the study, said in a statement.
It is great to see concrete data emerging on this front, and there cannot be a more direct and tangible impact of the benefits of going paperless for any small business.
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