Healthcare systems internationally are undertaking large-scale digitization programs with hospitals being a major focus. Although predictive analyses suggest that eHealth technologies have the potential to markedly transform health care delivery, contemporary peer-reviewed research evidence detailing their benefits and harms is limited. Considerable financial investment is currently being devoted in many countries to implementing potentially transformative eHealth technologies.
Such large-scale expenditure has been justified on the grounds that it will help address the problems of variable quality and safety in modern health care, improve efficiency and constrain rising health care costs . The current article provides an update on the cumulative evidence of clinical and organizational effects of contemporary eHealth technologies in hospital practice. Electronic medical records Enhanced…
