Intimate partner and sexual violence and the transition to electronic medical records

Friday, March 30, 2012: 1:25 PM-2:45 PM
Pacific A (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Speakers:
Joanne Timmons, MPH, Boston Medical Center
Erin C. Miller, MPS, MPA, CASAC, Newton-Wellesley Hospital

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Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:
  1. Identify the ways in which electronic medical records can both empower and endanger survivors
  2. Articulate the challenges that EMR presents to health care providers seeking to apply the best practice
Description:
For all of its strengths, particularly in the area of care coordination, electronic medical records (EMR)can still undermine even the best protocols of survivor care. This report will examine the challenges of the transition to global EMR.