The difficulties of moving to an electronic system: One hospital’s experience
Patient Safety Monitor Alert
July 8, 2009
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh's electronic system is one of the best in the nation, reports Yahoo News/ The Associated Press. However, it took seven years of effort on the part of all staff members at that facility to get where it is today. Many facilities are now in a race against the clock to become paperless by 2014, the year the U.S. government has decided it wants all hospitals in the country to be on an electronic system. Currently about 1.5% of the nation's 6,000 hospitals can be considered fully electronic, reports Yahoo News/ The Associated Press.
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