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Health care experts propose policies to encourage shared responsibility between electronic health record developers and users
Newswise — Developers of electronic health records (EHR) should create or modify their products to ensure that health care organizations can meet safety recommendations of the Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides, according to researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and Baylor College of Medicine. The paper, “Policies to Promote Shared Responsibility for Safer Electronic Health Records” was published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The SAFER Guides are a comprehensive compendium of safety practices organized as checklists and designed to help health care organizations … Read more
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Health Information Exchanges Are Shifting Responsibility for Care Coordination From Patient to Provider
HIE event notification shows promise in solving healthcare challenges. Primary care physicians recognize the need for better coordination and welcome health information exchange (HIE) event notifications as a way to improve patient care, according to a new study from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Regenstrief Institute, IUPUI, and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai researchers. The study, “Perceptions of event notification following discharge to improve geriatric care: qualitative interviews of care team members from a 2-site cluster randomized trial,” appeared online ahead of print in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). In a healthcare system … Read more
