The Doctors Company, the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurance company in the United States, recently issued an updated study regarding it closed claims medical malpractice experience in which electronic health records (EHR) were involved. While EHRs have brought many positives, they have also created new risks and frustrations for doctors and patients. The Executive Summary to the updated study stated, “In our study of 66 EHR-related claims from July 2014 through December 2016, we found that 50 percent of these claims were caused by system factors such as failure of drug or clinical decision support alerts and 58 percent of claims were caused by user factors such as copying and pasting progress notes. The Doctors Company states in its updated
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