No safety switch: How lax oversight of electronic health records puts patients at risk | FierceHealthcare

No safety switch: How lax oversight of electronic health records puts patients at risk | FierceHealthcare: Experts believe EHRs have made medicine safer by eliminating errors due to illegible handwriting and in some cases speeding up access to vital patient files. But they also acknowledge they have no idea how much safer, or how much the systems could still be improved because no one—a decade after the federal government all but mandated their adoption—is assessing the technology’s overall safety record.