Report
The IOM released Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard for Care, a report that describes a detailed plan to facilitate the development of data standards applicable to the collection, coding, and classification of patient safety information.
This report addresses key areas related to the establishment of a national health information infrastructure, including:
- a process for the ongoing promulgation of data standards;
- the status of current standards-setting activities in health data interchange, terminologies, and medical knowledge representation; as well as
- the need for comprehensive patient safety programs in health care organizations.
Recommendations are made for an applied research agenda on patient safety.
Report at a Glance
Report Brief. Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard of Care
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Key Capabilities of an Electronic Health Record System
A committee of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies has identified a set of 8 core care delivery functions that electronic health records (EHR) systems should be capable of performing in order to promote greater safety, quality and efficiency in health care delivery.
Released: July 31, 2003