Electronic Medical Records System Saves Detroit Medical Center a Yearly $5M

Electronic Medical Records Systems (EMR) are continuing to create major improvements in care quality and cost savings for the second year in a row for Detroit Medical Center's eight hospitals. Executives of DMC have announced that due to the DMC's system-wide electronic medical system, they could achieve improved patient safety and have also saved $5 million. They said that the highly effective electronic monitoring of critical tasks such as pressure ulcers treatment and preventing medication errors has caused a windfall in savings that resulted in a healthy return on investment.