Statewide Study Confirms “Paperless” Hospitals Are Better For Patients

Results from a large scale Johns Hopkins study of more than 40 hospitals and 160,000 patients show that when health information technologies replace paper forms and handwritten notes, both hospitals and patients benefit strongly. “Patients appear safer and hospital bottom lines may improve when health care information is gathered and stored on computers rather than on paper,” says senior author Neil R. Powe, M.D., M.P.H. M.B.

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