Healthcare IT News August 12, 2020
In an open letter to the Urban Institute, the organizations stressed the importance of asking end users about high-risk functionalities.
As one of the provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT contracted with the Urban Institute to develop a reporting program collecting information from developers about electronic health records. As part of that program, the Institute will conduct a survey of providers to provide their assessment of EHR technologies.
This week, Pew Charitable Trusts and MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare published an open letter to the Urban Institute urging it to more heavily focus on patient safety factors in the development of the survey.
“EHRs affect and...
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