Safety-enhanced Design

EHR Safety-enhanced design (§170.315.g.3) (aka Usability) Testing for ONC 2015 Certification

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has made several enhancements to the Safety-enhanced (aka usability) testing portion of the certification criteria.

The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) established a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) that, in part, is based upon compliance with certain rules. The following describes what is required to obtain the ONC 2015 Edition Certification for Safety-enhanced Design (§170.315.g.3) for an EHR.

ONC has posted the final 2015 Edition Test Method

The 2015 Edition Final Test Method has been posted and additional test procedure tools have been added. It can be accessed on the ONC Health IT Certification Program webpage.

The test procedures offer objective guidance to Accredited Testing Laboratories (ATLs) as they conduct Health IT module testing in the ONC Health IT Certification Program, to provide traceability from the certification criterion or criteria to testing activities, and to ensure consistency throughout the certification process.

The new Test Procedures format includes a grid of testing components that the ATLs would use as the test approach for that particular criterion.

The Final Test Method outlines the requirements for evaluating conformance of health IT Modules to the certification criteria defined in the ONC 2015 Edition Final Rule (45 CFR Part 170 Subpart II) published in the Federal Register on October 16, 2015.

Here is a direct link to the Safety-Enhanced Design (aka Usability) portion of the 2015 edition certification:

https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/170_315_g3_safety_enhanced_...

The Usability People would welcome the opportunity to work with you on improving the Usability of Healthcare IT.

For Usability evaluations of your EHR: contact The Usability People

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ONC Final Rule for 2015 Certification Criteria: Safety-enhanced design

Posted: October 7,2015

The final rule for the ONC 2015 certification has been released.

The 550+ page document identifies a number of changes from the previously published proposed rule in direct response to a number of comments provided to ONC.

Crash test dummies and The Usability of Electronic Health Records

Posted: August 14,2015

The big business interests of the Healthcare industry cried wolf (and lobbied hard)

against the meaningful use (now called “Promoting Interoperability”) program and enhancements to the usability requirements. Perhaps because they don’t want to spend the extra time and money to provide a healthcare system that truly follows a safety-enhanced design philosophy.

Are you ready for the ONC 2015 Certification (Meaningful Use 3)?

The Usability People provide real value to your team by promoting and embracing the User-centered Design approach that has been shown to have a 10 to 100 times ROI.

Is your EHR ready for the new features that are required to be evaluated for Meaningful Use?

We can design a satisfying user experience with usable interfaces to the many new required EHR features that have been identified in the 2015 Certification criteria.

When your system is ready, we provide a cost-effective and complete summative usability evaluation that is suitable for submission to your ATCB (Drummond, Infoguard, ISCA Labs, etc.).

We have sucessfully completed usability testing for the Safety-enhanced Design portion of the ONC 2015 Certification (aka Meaningful Use Stage 3) for a number of EHR vendors and are available to help you.

The Usability People would welcome the opportunity to work with you on improving the Usability of Healthcare IT. Together we may save a life!

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