On Monday, the not-for-profit health care industry group iHealth Alliance launched EHRevent.org, an online service that allows health care providers to report issues associated with electronic health record systems, Government Health IT reports (Mosquera, Government Health IT, 11/15).
Tool Details
At a Washington, D.C., event to launch the site, speakers said they expect challenges to arise as health care delivery organizations accelerate their adoption of EHRs (Lewis, InformationWeek, 11/15).
The tool lets health care providers describe risks and concerns about patient safety relating to the implementation of EHRs. Information will be kept confidential, according to officials.
The goal of the system is to reduce professional liability and improve patient and EHR safety.
EHRevent.org is modeled after the Federal Aviation Administration’s national reporting system, which reports safety threats related to software problems, security breaches and inadequate user training, among other issues (Government Health IT, 11/15).
PDR Network, a drug safety and communications company, will operate the network (Goedert, Health Data Management, 11/15).
How It Works
The new system will allow physicians to report health IT-related errors immediately. Once physicians report a problem, they answer several questions that alert the vendor to the issue. A patient’s record will be de-identified and data will be stored with a patient safety organization, which will study the data to identify why mistakes occurred (Reichard, CQ HealthBeat, 11/15).
The site will then develop reports that medical societies and government agencies, such as FDA, can use to help educate health care providers (Conn, Modern Healthcare, 11/15).
National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal said, “Improving safety begins with an understanding of where the threats to safety are occurring, and that means having better information” (InformationWeek, 11/15). He added, “This is an opportunity to discern patterns and learn lessons” (Merrill, Healthcare IT News, 11/16).
A similar iHealth Alliance site for reporting adverse medication events, RxEvent.org, is expected to launch within two months (Health Data Management, 11/15).
Source: iHealthBeat
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