EHRs Neglecting Preventative Care, Health Promotion

Current e-health record software fails to help clinicians identify patients who need additional services, finds government report.

Aug 11th, 2010
InformationWeek

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As doctors increasingly extract more data from the health IT they've deployed, a new study finds that software that tracks population health at physician practices is very limited.

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