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Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience: SAFER Guides.

February 11, 2025

Washington, DC: Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy.

Health information technologies are seen to both contribute to and detract from health care safety. This updated series of 8 toolkits offers best practices in foundational, infrastructure and clinical process areas to align implementation of electronic health records with strategies to ensure their safe use.

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