By Andrew Gettinger MD – Safety is and always has been a top priority at ONC. We have incorporated safety into the ONC Health IT Certification Program and our guiding documents, the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2015 – 2020 and Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap.
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By Andrew Gettinger MD – As we focus on making our health care ecosystem interoperable and building a continually improving learning health system, we need to ensure health IT enables safe, high quality care. We also know that doctors, nurses, and other clinicians that are all part of the care team are frustrated by health IT systems that are not coordinated or optimized to their workflow.
Progress on Health IT Patient Safety Action and Surveillance Plan In July of 2013, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) published…
by Bonnie Darves, iHealthBeat Contributing Reporter, iHealthBeat Given the broad reach and potential implementation complexity of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s…