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Challenging EMR Complacency
Sep 13, 2013
CRICO has produced a new video that embodies a vision of the future: it shows how electronic medical records (EMRs) might
be embedded into the physician workflow in a way that would improve healthcare delivery. [...] The dramatization represented in this 10-minute film, “Better, Safer Care: Imagining a Medical Record of the Future,” is based on real MPL cases.
Read the full-text article:
Padoll M. Challenging EMR Complacency. Inside Medical Liability. [Reprinted from the Third Quarter 2013 issue of Inside Medical Liability, PIAA. Copyright, 2013]
The video discussed in the article can be viewed on CRICO’s YouTube channel at:
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