“HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should work together “to regulate, certify and monitor healthcare applications and systems” that integrate home medical devices such as blood-pressure monitors and health information technology systems used by clinicians, according to a report from the National Research Council.
The 203-page report, “Health Care Comes Home: The Human Factors,” is based on a study sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and conducted by the council’s Committee on the Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care.”
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Joseph Conn, ModernHealthcare, 18 July 2011
