Patient Safety Awareness Week: AI and the Power of Collaboration

By the EHR Association Patient Safety Workgroup

As the 2026 Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 8-14) theme, Team Up for Patient Safety, reminds us, advancing safety requires teamwork—and today, that team includes AI.

For EHR and other health IT developers, AI represents a powerful opportunity to strengthen the safety net that clinicians rely on every day. When thoughtfully designed, AI can help detect risks earlier, reduce manual errors, and transform safety event data into actionable insights. But the real impact comes from collaboration. AI is most effective when paired with human expertise, transparent design, and strong governance. By building AI tools that support clinical judgment rather than replace it, vendors can help create safer, more resilient care environments.

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When Policy and Care Collide: Part One

Balancing Patient Consent with Patient Safety

By the EHR Association Patient Safety and Public Policy Leadership Workgroups

Navigating the tug-of-war between federal and state regulations has long been a challenge in health care and other industries. Now, with the ubiquity of health data creating both new opportunities and risks, that challenge has never been greater. This dual framework requires healthcare organizations and their technology partners to track and balance confusing and sometimes conflicting compliance efforts, adding administrative burden to the system as a whole and, in some cases, increasing the risk of adverse patient safety events.

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2026 Program Update: Navigating New Requirements for Hospitals and Eligible Providers

By the EHR Association’s Value-Based Care and Quality Programs Workgroup

In CMS’s 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, one theme stands out clearly: the joint goals of stability and steady transformation. 

While the agency is not upending the Quality Payment Program (QPP) or the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program, it is continuing to refine them with updates that reflect CMS’s ongoing effort to simplify, modernize, and prepare healthcare for a future in which MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs) and advanced interoperability expectations are the norm. Doing so means fewer shifts and, as a result, easier adaptation for EHR systems and clinical workflows, reducing the effort required for annual measure changes. The EHR Association applauds CMS’s effort to simplify the program and reduce burden.

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Electronic Health Record Association Announces its 2026 Leadership Team and Priorities

CHICAGO – January 16, 2026 – The HIMSS Electronic Health Record (EHR) Association announced today the results of its annual leadership elections for terms that began Jan. 1, 2026. Leigh Burchell, Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs at Altera Digital Health, will continue as Chair, and Stephanie Jamison, Senior Director of Regulatory and Government Affairs at Greenway Health, continues as Vice Chair.

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A Manner Exception Primer

By the EHR Association Information Blocking Compliance Task Force

This is the second blog in our occasional series on information blocking, the goal of which is to educate our membership and other impacted stakeholders on information blocking requirements and exceptions. The first installment shared the history and description of information blocking. This entry is focused on the Manner Exception, its history, and what it means. 

History of the Exception

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National Disability Employment Awareness Month: Putting Accessibility into Practice

By Tammy Coutts (MEDITECH), Chair of the EHR Association Social Determinants of Health & Health Equity Task Force

Ability and disability exist on a spectrum, one that nearly everyone will find themselves on at some point in time. Ways in which limitations show up vary dramatically and can be permanent, temporary or sporadic in duration. That is why, when it comes to inclusive design, health IT software developers should focus more on empowering everyone to succeed and less narrowly on addressing specific disability challenges.

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