Adverse inpatient outcomes during the transition to a new electronic health record system: observational study.

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Published in BMJ on July 28, 2016

Authors

Michael L Barnett1, Ateev Mehrotra2, Anupam B Jena3

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
2: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
3: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA jena@hcp.med.harvard.edu.

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