DOTmed November 16, 2022
Over 70,000 U.S. clinicians may have used electronic health record solutions that posed risks to patient safety, on account of six vendors who allegedly misrepresented their functionality to obtain certification.
The six paid settlements of more than $379.8 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Department of Justice for alleged kickbacks and misrepresented product capabilities, according to researchers at MedStar Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the University of Utah.
This led to more than 76,831 individual clinicians using suboptimal EHR systems between 2011 and 2016. Under the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, EHR solutions must meet capability, functionality and security requirements adopted by HHS...
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