In response to questions about efficacy and safety of electronic health records, the American Medical Informatics Association published a position paper in its journal outlining 10 ways to reduce errors, imcrease patient safety and improve efficiency.
"These AMIA recommendations are intended to stimulate informed debate, provide a plan to increase understanding of the impact of usability on the effective use of health IT and lead to safer and higher quality care with the adoption of useful and usable EHR systems,"
The guiding principles include:
Having a usability and human factors research agenda in health IT, including developing core measures and best practicesCreating federal policy recommendations, such as standardization and adverse event reporting policiesSoliciting industry recommendations from vendors, such as formal usability assessmentsImplementing clinical end-user recommendations, including best practices and monitoring, during EHR implementation"These AMIA recommendations on patient safety and the usability of EHR aim to stimulate ongoing and informed discussions and bring about increased understanding of the impact of usability on the safe and effective use of EHR systems,"
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