Pew & MedStar urge focus on patient safety in EHR survey

Healthcare IT News: 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.

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