Farzad Mostashari, MD, the Obama administration’s coordinator for health information technology, urged medical software vendors and caregivers to step up patient safety reporting and avoid faulty electronic records, according to HealthcareIT News.
Dr. Mostashari said federal officials will begin looking at more formal regulations if vendors don’t “step up and prove [their] ability to create a code of conduct that would be enforceable, that would bind you voluntarily to reporting safety events.”
The Obama administration is now asking vendors to collect and analyze examples of risk to patients from digital records.
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Dr. Mostashari said federal officials will begin looking at more formal regulations if vendors don’t “step up and prove [their] ability to create a code of conduct that would be enforceable, that would bind you voluntarily to reporting safety events.”
The Obama administration is now asking vendors to collect and analyze examples of risk to patients from digital records.
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