2011
Towards safe information technology in health care
Publication
Publication
Information Knowledge Systems Management , Volume 10 - Issue 1-4 p. 335- 344
Health information technology is widely accepted to increase patient safety and reduce medical errors. The widespread implementation makes evident that health information technology has become of a complex sociotechnical system that is health care. Design and implementation may result in a failure; even health information technology can lead to adverse events instead of mitigating them. In this chapter seeks to outline the complexity of health information technology as a part of a sociotechnical systems, describes two failures at different organizational levels and presents a model how risks can occur. Unfortunately there is a mainly anecdotal knowledge about health information technology failure and potential adverse effects. Therefore the author suggests how as a first step proper and mandatory reporting can lead to better knowledge of failures of health information technology as part of a sociotechnical system and improve deployment in the coming years.
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| Organisation | Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM) |
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Aarts, J. (2011). Towards safe information technology in health care. Information Knowledge Systems Management, 10(1-4), 335–344. doi:10.3233/IKS-2012-0200 |
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