Modern Healthcare June 10, 2020
A Washington, D.C.-based think tank contracted to create HHS’ electronic health record reporting program has released a draft questionnaire that clinicians, pharmacists and hospital information technology staff would use to evaluate software products.
Under the 21st Century Cures Act, HHS is required to collect data on health IT software certified by the agency. The ultimate goal is to publish interoperability, usability and other data from software users and developers, so that users can compare products before purchasing them.
HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in 2018 tapped economic and social policy research think tank Urban Institute and consulting firm HealthTech Solutions to develop the program, dubbed the EHR reporting program.
The Urban Institute on Tuesday published...