ONC Aims To Reduce Negative Effects of Health IT Adoption

ONC Aims To Reduce Negative Effects of Health IT Adoption

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is developing several tools to mitigate the unintended consequences associated with health IT adoption, Bloomberg BNA reports.Kathy Kenyon -- a senior policy analyst at ONC -- discussed the development of the tools at the recent Health Information Integrity Summit, which was sponsored by the American Health Information Management Association.According to Kenyon, many health care providers are unprepared for the potentially negative consequences of adopting electronic health record systems and health data exchange technology. Such unintended consequences could include:Kenyon said that ONC is

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