Is the Michael Jackson Trial Relevant to Electronic Health Records?

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The Michael Jackson trial will determine if Dr. Conrad Murray knew the information that electronic health records provide about drug interactions & drug dosage.


98,000 deaths occur in the United States each year from preventable medical errors!

Michael Jackson, the superstar has been dead for 2 years. Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's personal physician, who is on trial for involuntary manslaughter.


Health care providers should consider the benefit of an electronic health record system. Electronic health records help physicians and other health care providers be better doctors. With electronic health recors there is increased patient safety, improved quality of care based on best practices and evidence based medicine.

Patient safety and consistent quality medical care are goals of health information technology. More specifically, it is the goal of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act / HITECH Act, which is mandating the transition to electronic health records.

An electronic health record provides clinicial decision support, especially relative to drug order:
Alerts about drug interactions
Checks for drug allergies
Notices about potential drug side effects
Warns about potential dosage errors based on the age, weight or gender of the patient.

Hence, the electronic health record system provides helpful information that could have prevented the death of Michael Jackson. The Michael Jackson trial will determine if Dr. Murray knowingly provided the lethal drug overdose.


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