HHS Announces Winners of Easy EHR Issue Reporting Challenge

29. November 2018 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
As part of ongoing efforts to improve the safe use of health information technology (health IT) and electronic health records (EHRs), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced today the winners of the Easy EHR Issue Reporting Challenge. Winners of this challenge created software tools that could help clinicians report EHR usability and ...

HHS Issues Draft Strategy to Reduce Health IT Burden

29. November 2018 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued a draft strategy designed to help reduce administrative and regulatory burden on clinicians caused by the use of health information technology (health IT) such as electronic health records (EHRs). The draft Strategy on Reducing Regulatory and Administrative Burden Relating to the Use of Health ...