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The impact of electronic health records on diagnosis.

April 3, 2018

Graber ML, Byrne C, Johnston D. Diagnosis (Berl). 2017;4(4):211-223.

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Health information technologies (IT) are seen to facilitate diagnostic improvement. This review discusses opportunities and problems that health IT can bring to diagnostic safety. The authors recommend ways to safely use health IT to improve diagnosis.

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