Healthcare DIVE December 19, 2019
Dive Brief:
- The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT found a patient safety issue in 3.7% of all certified EHRs, or a total of 275 systems from nine vendors, according to researchers who analyzed surveillance data and published their findings this week in JAMA.
- The types of potential patient safety issues included laboratory test results not importing into the EHR properly, oral liquid medication restricted to milliliter dosing, improperly recorded codes for vaccines and decimal points being removed from medication dosage entries.
- From January 2016 to June, ONC investigated 697 EHRs from 195 vendors. More than 90% of cases were initiated in response to a reported problem while the remaining were selected randomly. Of those EHRs, just...
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Topics: EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, ONC, Physician, Provider, Safety, Technology