Healthcare Innovation August 16, 2021
CMS Makes Annual SAFER Guides EHR Self-Assessment a Requirement
The SAFER Guides, a set of checklist-based self-assessment tools to improve safety of how EHRs are used, have seen limited uptake so far, but a recently released final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) makes attestation to having completed an annual assessment of all nine guides in the SAFER Guides measure a requirement under the Protect Patient Health Information objective.
The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides were released in 2014 to help health systems conduct proactive risk assessment of electronic health record (EHR)- safety related policies, processes, procedures, and configurations. A 2018 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, found...
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