On behalf of Breslin & Breslin, P.A. | Feb 26, 2020 | Hospital Negligence, Medication Errors, Personal Injury
New Jersey residents and others who are misdiagnosed by their doctors may experience a wide range of emotions such as fear or anger. A misdiagnosis can have a significant impact on a person’s life, and diagnostic errors are considered a significant problem in...
On behalf of Breslin & Breslin, P.A. | Mar 4, 2014 | Medication Errors
A major development in New Jersey hospitals and other medical facilities across the country in recent years has been the steady — and rapid — implementation of electronic health record (EHR) systems to supplant paper records and handwritten patient...
On behalf of Breslin & Breslin, P.A. | Oct 30, 2013 | Medication Errors
Here is a central irony concerning the electronic health record (EHR) systems that are rapidly becoming the norm in hospitals across the country, including in New Jersey, as expressed by a pediatrician.”It is actually much harder to take care of sick patients in...
On behalf of Breslin & Breslin, P.A. | Jul 3, 2013 | Medication Errors
The advent of electronic health record (EHR) systems to supplant paper records for patients in New Jersey and elsewhere across the country began in earnest several years ago with the federal government’s initiative to reward hospitals upgrading their charts and...
On behalf of Breslin & Breslin, P.A. | Apr 16, 2013 | Medication Errors
The push across the medical industry in recent years that has focused upon supplanting paper records with electronic health records (EHRs), with New Jersey providers being no exception, has often been touted as revolutionary.The transformation, advocates routinely...
On behalf of Breslin & Breslin, P.A. | Apr 2, 2013 | Medication Errors
It takes a considerable amount of time for some medical studies to be fully evaluated following completion of research and material findings.Such is the case with a study on medication error published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics...
On behalf of Breslin & Breslin, P.A. | Jan 29, 2013 | Medication Errors
“Studies like this give us the opportunity to find out how we are actually doing,” says Asad Latif, “compared to how we think we are doing.”What Latif, a doctor from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and lead author of a study...
On behalf of Breslin & Breslin, P.A. | Jan 25, 2013 | Medication Errors
As one doctor — an infectious-disease specialist in New York City — queried recently in his capacity as a media commentator on national health care, what reasonable person would ever argue over a uniform approach to injections that centrally incorporates...
