“We have argued previously that ONC has an obligation to assure that EHRs are safe and effective, and that a two-part regulatory strategy could achieve this goal without hindering ONC’s primary mission to foster rapid uptake of EHRs by US providers.
In Monday’s post, we reviewed the first part of this strategy, which is to extend EHR certification to include more patient safety criteria than they do currently. Here, we outline the second part, a post-market surveillance system governing EHR safety.”
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Glenn Laffel, EHR Bloggers, 3 March 2010
