Their recommendations are:
- Appoint an emergency department “clinician champion.”
- Create a multidisciplinary EHR performance improvement group.
- Establish an ongoing review process.
- Attend to EHR-related patient safety concerns raised by the review process in a timely manner.
- Disseminate lessons learned from performance improvement efforts publicly.
- Ensure timely distribution by EHR vendors of product updates to all users.
- Remove “hold harmless” and “learned intermediary” clauses from all vendor software contracts.
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