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Along with the electronic health record (EHR) Safety Institute, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality convened a meeting on October 21 and 22, 2008 on EHRs and the benefits and risks to implementing them. The EHR Safety Institute brought together a national advisory panel comprised of recognized leaders to identify the scope of EHR safety, define research needs and benchmarks, and establish what individual health care institutions can do to make EHRs as safe and effective as possible. The meeting brought together recognized national experts in the areas of patient safety and EHRs to accelerate the adoption and use of an electronic health information infrastructure in the United States.