EHRs may up malpractice risk

Electronic health records (EHR) contain features, such as templates, which can help providers reduce the risk of malpractice litigation. But the misuse of EHRs actually can cause providers to be more vulnerable to such lawsuits, FierceEMR reports. For example, an EHR's audit trail function, which keeps track of the date and time of all activities performed on the EHR, can become a malpractice liability. --Read the full article from FierceEMR