On January 15, 2014, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released the Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides, which include interactive tools (such as self-assessment checklists, practice worksheets, and recommended practices) to help health care providers assess and optimize the safety and safe use electronic health information technology products, such as electronic health records (EHRs).
On January 14, 2014, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released two briefs that provide information on the benefits and value of all-payer claims databases (APCDs).
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking establishing a new policy that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will follow in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for information on Medicare reimbursement amounts paid to individual physicians.
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