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EHRs: Weighing Incentives and What's Best for Patients
Physicians Practice, 06/12/2012
Essin D – EHRs should be considered to be a therapeutic modality, just as a drug or a surgical procedure is a therapeutic modality, since it can impact patients in both beneficial and detrimental ways. As with drugs and surgical procedures, it is reasonable to expect that decisions about if and when to apply EHR to a patient are made on the basis of objective evidence, not anecdotal accounts, personal biases or external pressures, be they political or economic.
