North York General Hospital advances patient safety with health IT

Source: PR Newswire

Results to be shared with other hospitals in Canada TORONTO, May 25, 2012 /CNW/ - North York General Hospital (NYGH) is leading an initiative that will help hospitals from across Canada implement technology that improves patient safety. The pr ...
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Doctor Note-Taking Style Could Affect Patient Care: Study

Source: The Huffington Post

The way your doctor takes notes could affect the way he or she cares for you, a new study suggests. Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association shows that doctors who take patient notes by dictating them give lower ...
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Dictation Degrades EHR Accuracy

Source: GovExec.com

Patient care is “significantly worse” when doctors dictate their notes into electronic health records compared with two other common forms of documenting care, according to a study published online this week by the Journal of the American Medical Infor ...
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To dictate or not to dictate?

Source: EurekAlert

BOSTON, MAÂCould the quality of care you receive be affected by how your doctor takes notes? According to a new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), doctors who dictated their patient notes a ...
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