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The Quadruple Aim
Quadruple Aim

A Conceptual Framework

Improving the U.S. health care system requires four aims: improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, reducing per capita costs and improving care team well-being. HITEQ Center resources seek to provide content and direction aligned with the goals of the Quadruple Aim

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This set of SAFER Guides can also be found on the HealthIT.gov website which includes further description and documentation. The SAFER Guides consist of nine guides organized into three broad groups. They are provided here on the HITEQ Center knowledgebase as well for easy access to Health Centers. These guides enable healthcare organizations to address EHR safety in a variety of areas. Most organizations will want to start with the Foundational Guides, and proceed from there to address their areas of greatest interest or concern. The guides identify recommended practices to optimize the safety and safe use of EHRs. The interactive PDF versions of the guides can be downloaded and completed locally for self-assessment of an organization’s degree of conformance to the Recommended Practices. The downloaded guides can be filled out, saved, and transmitted between team members.

2025 SAFER-1 High Priority Practices
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2025 SAFER-1 High Priority Practices

A Resource Developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

The High Priority Practices SAFER Guide includes 16 recommendations selected from the other seven guides because of their relevance and importance for practicing clinicians to understand and support.

The 2024 revision of the High-Priority SAFER guide includes many new recommendations. One focuses on the safe and effective use of artificial intelligence (AI)- enabled applications and another on the use of patient portals and patient-clinician communication. These relatively new features offer great promise for improvements in the delivery of safe and effective healthcare, but both have risks to patient safety that must be managed. While each of the seven individual SAFER guides is designed to be used by a multi-disciplinary group, this High Priority Guide is for front-line clinicians.

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Acknowledgements

This resource collection was created by Joan Ash, Hardeep Singh, and Dean Sittig for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).