2025 SAFER-3 Contingency Planning
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The Contingency Planning SAFER Guide identifies recommended safety practices associated with planned or unplanned EHR unavailability — instances in which clinicians or other end users cannot access all or part of the EHR.
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The System Management Guide identifies recommended safety practices associated with the configuration, validation, and maintenance of electronic...
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The Patient Identification SAFER Guide identifies recommended safety practices associated with the reliable identification of...
A Resource Developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
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The Computerized Provider Order Entry with Decision Support SAFER Guide identifies recommended safety practices associated with...
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The Test Results Reporting and Follow-Up SAFER Guide identifies recommended safety practices intended to optimize the safety and...
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The Clinician Communication SAFER Guide identifies recommended safety practices for communication among clinicians, care teams,...
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The High Priority Practices SAFER Guide includes 16 recommendations selected from the other seven guides because of their...
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The Organizational Responsibilities SAFER Guide identifies individual and organizational responsibilities (activities, processes,...
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ONC’s guide to EHR selection and contracting.
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A well-done security risk assessment (SRA) will identify security vulnerabilities across the breadth of a healthcare organization's health information systems. Factors will include policy, organizational and technical...
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This YouTube video provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers a white board style overview of how electronic health record systems directly support a patient's health. It includes topics...
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To help providers better understand and adopt HIT, the Office for the National Coordinator (ONC) released the Health IT Playbook. The Health IT Playbook is a dynamic, web-based tool intended to make it easy for...