Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Pew Pushes For Faster UDI Integration Into Electronic Health Records

Pew Pushes For Faster UDI Integration Into Electronic Health Records-thegraysheet: Pew Charitable Trusts’ medical device group is pushing the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to more deeply integrate unique device identifiers into electronic health record standards on a faster timeline than ONC has proposed. The non-profit made the case in April 28 comments filed in response to proposed 2015 certification standards that ONC circulated in February.