One of the central provisions of the health care reform bill is expanded use of computerized medical records.
This article documents an unintended consequence, suggesting that we must always "trust, but verify" proposed interventions.
Arch Intern Med -- Abstract: Unintended Effects of a Computerized Physician Order Entry Nearly Hard-Stop Alert to Prevent a Drug Interaction: A Randomized Controlled Trial, September 27, 2010, Strom et al. 170 (17): 1578
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