ONC launched the Easy EHR Issue Reporting Challenge to find possible solutions to help providers and other user of EHRs report usability or safety concerns to appropriate parties, such as the hospital or practice’s IT team, the EHR developer, and Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs).
Electronic Health Record (EHR) usability issues can adversely affect health care quality and patient safety. In order to effectively address such issues, clinicians, hospitals, and health IT developers need better tools to capture, analyze, and understand how and why errors occur. This challenge is a multidisciplinary call to software developers, clinicians, and innovators to create a tool that will make it easier for doctors, nurses, and other care team members to efficiently and effectively report concerns about the usability or safety of EHRs to appropriate parties, such as the hospital or practice’s IT team, the EHR developer, and Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs).
Prizes:
- Total: $80,000 in prizes
- First Place: $45,000
- Second Place: $25,000
- Third Place: $10,000
Challenge Timeline
- Challenge launch: May 22, 2018
- Submission period ends: October 15, 2018
- Winners notified: November 6, 2018
- Winners announced: November, 2018
Quick Reference Links
- Challenge website – CCC Innovations Center
- EHR Issue Reporting Challenge Details
- Submission Form
- Contact
Read the blog post by ONC’s Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Andy Gettinger to learn more about this challenge.