Electronic Health Record 'Gag Clauses' May Soon Come Off

Dr. Raj Ratwani, director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare in Washington, D.C., says freer speech is needed to help make electronic records safer and more user-friendly.

"Electronic health records are a positive thing; the majority of clinicians would never want to go back to paper," he says. "Having said that, there are some unintended consequences to the technology, and these gag clauses in particular have prevented us from being able to really quantify that impact."

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