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EHR implementation held after Minn. bridge collapse

EHR implementation held after Minn. bridge collapse

Date: Aug 15, 2011

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In the early days of summer 2007, Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis completed its Epic Systems Inc. electronic health record (EHR) implementation. A month later and a mile away, Bridge 9340 over the Mississippi River collapsed, injuring 145 people and killing 13.

At the World Congress 3rd Annual Leadership Summit on mHealth, HCMC CMIO Kevin L. Larsen, M.D. shared his account of how the staffers -- who had just gotten accustomed to the EHR workflow -- quickly ditched the paper backup system for which the disaster response plan called. Turns out, electronic records were a faster, more efficient way to handle a patient surge, even though it was such a recent EHR implementation.

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