Evidence-based medicine: Does an EHR help?

Tom Doerr, MD, Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Purkinje—makers of the CCHIT Certified® 2007 Ambulatory EHR CareSeries EHR 2.0—has published an extensive piece on the role of EHR in evidence-based medicine.

He writes:

When integrated into an electronic health record (EHR) system, evidence driven decision support is presented to the physician at the point of thought, providing crucial evidence-based literature that promotes timely and informed medical decision making. Further integration with a single platform solution that includes an electronic prescribing module provides the physician with objective, medication therapy decision support at the point of prescribing.

For more, see “The Benefits of Evidence-based Medicine in EHR Systems.”