The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) has released an update of guidance documents that healthcare organizations use to assess and optimize the safety of their electronic health record systems.
The new 2025 Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience Guides contain revisions related to the 21st Century CURES Act -- including the use of artificial intelligence for clinical care, cybersecurity and integration of U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved medical device data into electronic health records -- and software testing procedures.
The updated EHR operations safety guides now incorporate current recommendations based on perspectives in clinical medicine, patient safety, informatics, quality improvement, risk management, human factors engineering and usability.
There are also new tools to aid in self-assessment scoring and evidence-level analyses, such as a new five-point rating scale that estimates the percent adherence to the implementation guidance suggestions and a new three-level evidence hierarchy that helps to evaluate the quality of evidence for each SAFER recommendation.
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