Hospitals that used electronic health records improved mortality rates but did not save money or reduce patient complications, a decade-long study of 326 California hospitals suggests, according to a report in the Arizona Republic.
The results of the study, whose authors are three professors at the Arizona State University W.P. Carey School of Business, were published in the journal Health Services Research.
The study showed that nurses had trouble balancing time spent with patients and time spent managing the computerized records, according to the report.
Read the Arizona Republic report on the electronic health records study.