EHR Intelligence March 4, 2020
Christopher Jason

Pew Charitable Trusts and MedStar Health put together a list of four key criteria to further enhance patient safety in the EHR reporting program.

Pew Charitable Trusts and Maryland-based MedStar Health have proposed a list of criteria for the Office of the National Coordinator Health Information Technology (ONC) regarding its upcoming EHR reporting program that prioritizes patient safety.

With the 21st Century Cures Act currently in motion, Congress assigned the ONC to develop an EHR reporting program to dissect and distribute data on EHR performance and usability.

The EHR reporting program asks EHR developers to submit data on the functions of their health IT products, thus contributing to the establishment of new EHR certification requirements.

To prioritize patient safety, the...

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