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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<\/a> Center at Houston (UTHealth) and\u00a0Baylor College of Medicine.\n <\/p>\n

The paper, “Policies to Promote Shared Responsibility for Safer Electronic Health Records” was published\u00a0today\u00a0in the\u00a0Journal of the American Medical Association<\/i>\u00a0(JAMA).<\/p>\n

The\u00a0SAFER Guides<\/a>\u00a0are a comprehensive compendium of safety practices organized as checklists and designed to help health care organizations and EHR developers conduct self-assessments of their EHRs. Their goal is to proactively optimize the safety and safe use of EHRs. The guides are sponsored by the\u00a0Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology<\/a>\u00a0(ONC)\u00a0within the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n

“Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published new payment rules that required all eligible hospitals to use the SAFER Guides,” said\u00a0Dean Sittig, Ph.D., professor of biomedical informatics at UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics and co-author on the paper. “What this new rule didn’t do is require EHR developers to use the SAFER Guides. So, we are recommending that developers of EHR systems should annually assess their products as well. This will ensure that their customers can implement and use the EHR as recommended in the SAFER Guides.”<\/p>\n

“We see the new CMS rules as a landmark development in EHR safety that impacts all U.S. hospitals,” said\u00a0Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH, co-author on the paper, a professor of medicine at Baylor and researcher at the\u00a0Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety\u00a0(IQuESt)\u00a0and Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. “But for\u00a0hospitals to achieve quality and safety improvements promised by state-of-the-art EHRs,<\/i>\u00a0we also need to engage EHR developers in implementation of safety practices.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the new CMS policy requiring hospitals to perform annual self-assessment using the SAFER Guides creates a solid foundation, authors say the responsibility for safety must be shared with EHR developers.<\/p>\n

Sittig and Singh recommend three specific strategies to complement the new CMS rules. They suggest:<\/p>\n