FIRESIDE CHAT / WEBINAR | Going Beyond CMS Interoperability: a SAFER EHR

Peter Kleinschmidt, MD, Board Certified Clinical Informaticist, Assistant Professor, UW Health; Dean Sittig, PhD, Professor, UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics; Jorge Sanchez, MD, MPH, Internal Medicine Specialist, Mass General Brigham; and Arvind Kumar, Managing Director, Eisner Advisory Group LLC. The CMS SAFER Guides are a multi-disciplinary library of recommended practices focused on technology, EHR configurations, policies and practices that provides a framework to improve the safety of an EHR and advance the design and use of the EHR to maximize safety for both providers and patients.  Starting in calendar year 2022, organizations that take part in the CMS Promoting Interoperability Program are required to perform an annual SAFER Guides assessment and attest to CMS of its completion. Join digital health leader Arvind Kumar (EisnerAmper), co-author of the CMS SAFER guides Dean Sittig, and representatives from member organizations Dr. Peter Kleinschmidt (UW Health) and Dr. Jorge Sanchez (Mass General Brigham) to explore how a deep focus on the SAFER Guide concepts, values and recommendations can advance operational and cultural safety competencies. “Going Beyond CMS Interoperability: a SAFER EHR” explores how a multidisciplinary and collaborative effort can meet the CMS attestation requirement and generate richer insights to EHR improvements that will accelerate patient safety improvements.