Electronic health records can do more than identify which patients should be receiving preventive care and other additional services. They also can help providers pinpoint who shouldn't receive care, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The researchers studied EHR data from clinics affiliated with Northwestern University to see if the data could flag and measure whether certain patients were receiving pap smears too frequently, FierceEMR reported. The study found that EHR data was sufficiently precise to better identify which women are at low risk for cervical center. --Read the full article from FierceEMR