Ruben Amarasingham, MD, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, conducted a study that queried 41 Texas hospitals about their use of technology. The study looked at physicians’ interaction with IT systems and followed 167,233 patients with statistics about in-hospital deaths, complications, costs, and length of stay.

According to a report at ModernMedicine.com, the patients whose doctors made use of database records were more likely not to die in the hospital, and less likely to suffer from complications. In addition, the more involved doctors were with information technology overalls, the lower the hospitals’ costs were. Read more at ModernMedicine.com.