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CCHIT eNews
Vol. 7, Issue 1 January 12, 2012 |
From the Chair: Patient SafetyThe recently released report by the Institute of Medicine concluded that protecting patient safety in a digital environment is multifactorial, encompassing technological functions, usability of the products, and implementation and use by providers and others. Ten recommendations were made to establish the nature and extent of issues related to patient safety and health IT, how they could be monitored over time, and how they might be addressed by the public and private sectors. A good place to start is malpractice claims. 52% of all paid medical malpractice claims in 2009 were in the ambulatory setting, with two thirds of these involving major injury or death. A recent analysis suggests that most adverse judgments fall into three categories: poor communication, poor documentation, and problems associated with diagnosis and treatment of a patient. It’s worth considering how health IT can better address these issues, and the degree to which they can currently be assessed to do so. Bobbie Byrne, VP/CIO, Edward Hospital, chats with HIStalk about CCHIT"If you think about certification, I’ll divide into two phases. One is the formation of CCHIT, which was to help increase adoption of health information technology by removing some of the risk on the buying side, and that CCHIT certification really meant something and that when if you were buying a CCHIT-certified product, it wasn’t going to be perfect, but you could be assured it was going to have some baseline interoperability security and functionality." Suspending LAIKAIf you have been a user of our Laika interoperability testing tool, we have made some changes. You can read more here. We are currently relying on validation tools and test procedures developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for ONC-authorized testing. For CCHIT Certified® testing, we also take advantage of the available NIST validation tools, then add an observed verification of expected codified content. For information on ONC-ATCB testing, please go to CCHIT’s The Source™ or http://healthcare.nist.gov/use_testing. For information on CCHIT Certified testing, please see the CCHIT Interoperability Test Guide. CCHIT provides testing updates here and through its regular news channels – CCHIT eNews, Twitter, and Facebook.
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