Survey: Only 18% of EHR safety guidelines fully implemented

Voluntary guidelines designed to increase the safety of electronic health records (EHRs) have yet to be implemented fully, according to a survey published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Researchers—led by Dean Sittig, PhD, a professor at the UTHealth School Biomedical Informatics—conducted a follow-up survey to see how many healthcare organizations fully implemented the Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) guides.