On 5/6/05 2:30 PM, "Thomas Beale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
J. Antas wrote:
>A study published at the Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. (2005 Jan;49(1):62-5.)
> documents what seems to be an emerging (and rather unexpected) trend:
>Clinical IT (HIS) systems increase the time that healthcare workers
>spend documenting their activities and not the other way around.
>
>One could always argue that those systems bring other advantages to the
>patient and to the care providers, but the fact still remains: they take
>extra time from the healthcare providers and we should be aware of that.
>
>
Be careful here: it depends on what systems, how they were used, what
information was captured (versus what used to be captured on paper) and
many other factors. Including how the study was done.
I just reviewed four finalist papers for inclusion in the EHR section of
the IMIA yearbook 2005, and none reported this trend; from memory 2
reported the reverse trend, and all reported better quality in some form.
- thomas beale
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