EHR Safety First Steps

EHR Readiness Organizational Survey
This survey gives your organization's EHR strategy teams and governing board and a tool for assessing the organization's readiness to use an EHR to improve care quality and patient safety.

Safety Flaw Tracker (.xls)
A critical early step in improving EHR safety is to identify EHR-related safety flaws (any characteristics of the EHR and its interactions with other care systems social or technical that create the potential for patient harm) and resolve or at least mitigate them. The Safety Flaw Tracker can help your organization manage the resolution and mitigation of flaws. It also provides a mechanism for investigating trends in the types of flaws associated with your EHR, potentially enabling the prediction of flaws before they occur.