On Monday, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's Electronic Health Record Association -- which represents 44 EHR vendors -- announced a partnership with the iHealth Alliance to support of the use of an online reporting tool that tracks EHR-related medical errors, InformationWeek reports
Background
The iHealth Alliance is a not-for-profit patient safety organization comprised of medical societies, medical malpractice insurers, patient safety advocates and FDA officials.
Last year, the alliance launched the website EHRevent.org to serve as a repository for reporting adverse events associated with EHR systems.
Partnership Details
As part of the newly announced partnership, the EHR Association said it would promote the use of the EHRevent.org website (Versel, InformationWeek, 11/7).
Sarah Corley, chair of the EHR Association's patient safety work group, said, "As developers of core technologies that can enhance patient safety and quality care delivery, we want to ensure that we're part of any initiatives focused on collecting and appropriately analyzing suspected issues that compromise those objective" (EHR Association release, 11/7).
Nancy Dickey, chair of the iHealth Alliance, said that members of EHR Association understand how EHR systems work and therefore will help the group "be more successful in understanding the root causes of suspected incidents so they can be prevented in the future" (Conn, Modern Healthcare, 11/7).