Hospitals, CIOs Laud Health IT Safety Plan

InformationWeek: The American Hospital Association (AHA) and healthcare CIOs represented by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) are offering qualified praise for a national health IT safety plan that relies on existing public and private patient safety frameworks, rather than creating a new federal entity. But the AHA went further, all but asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to lead development of a nationwide master patient index.

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