HHS updates regulatory guides for the safe use of EHRs

The Policy of the Assistant Minister of Technology has issued an update of guidance documents used by health care organizations to assess and improve the safety of their electronic health records systems.
New Safety Security Factors for 2025 contain EHR flexibility evidence for the twenty-first century Treatment Law-including the use of artificial intelligence for clinical care and cybersecurity and the integration of data of medical devices approved by the Food and Drug Administration in electronic health records-and software test procedures.
Why do it matter
Many of the topic experts worked on update 2025 for the safer evidence – seven publications of 524 example – according to Journal of the American Medical Information Association.
A large group of “doctors who have large -scale informatics training or information scientists with wide clinical experience” reviewed the repetition and review of evidence “often several times.” Case study Saturday published.
They pointed out that many auditors have experience of working for EHR sellers or health care organizations that developed EHRS.
EHR safety evidence now includes current recommendations based on views of clinical medicine, patient safety, information, quality improvement, risk management, human factors engineering and ease of use.
Advanced practices that move The twenty -first century treatments lawLike the patient and patient contact the patient’s access to clinical observations, test results, and the integration of new practices, and mentioned in 2025 safer evidenceThey said.
There are also new tools to help recording self -evaluation and evidence level analyzes, such as a new five -point classification scale and is estimated to comply with the percentage of implementation instructions and a new hierarchical sequence of the level that helps assess the quality of evidence for each safer more recommendation.
Other promotions include revised literature references, simplified descriptions, and high -training priority practices more secure guide that collects the main recommendations specifically for doctors qualified for incentive payment system.
The biggest direction
Firstly Issued in 2014The last safer evidence was updated in 2016.
While hospitals worked to comply with the new regulatory rules, they indicated that they needed the help of EHR sellers, according to the editorial in American Medical Association Magazine.
Meanwhile, healthcare leaders called for policies that enhance the joint responsibility of the safer EHRS, and asked sellers virtual settings of the virtual product to comply with the safest recommendations and clear guidance on how to address safety practices.
They also asked HHS annual reviews of the safer recommendations.
In 2021, Medicare and Medicaid service centers Proposal Changes in interconnection. The agency has updated Medicare to encourage overlapping operation, Require Hospitals eligible to complete EHRS annual self -evaluation Using safer evidence at the beginning of 2022.
In the record
“We expect most organizations to implement the best and effective additional practices for EHRS, and therefore the result should increase from year to year.”
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