Researchers compared EHRs with paper-based records in a long-term regional collaborative study of seven diverse healthcare organizations’ primary care practices. Key findings include:
• Fifty percent of patients at EHR sites, as compared with 6 percent of patients at paper-based sites, received care for diabetes that met all quality care standards.
• EHR sites showed higher achievement on all components of the composite standard for care.
• For diabetes outcomes, 43 percent of patients at EHR sites and 15 percent of those at paper-based sites had outcomes that met at least four of the five standards.
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