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The Evidence Shows IOM Was Right on Health IT and Patient Safety
Kathy Kenyon | April 27, 2015
The potential for health IT to reduce errors has been a pillar of health policy on patient safety since the Institute of Medicine’s To Err is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001). In 2012, in Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care the IOM found the evidence on the impact of health IT on patient safety was “mixed.”
Read Full Post.Learning About Health IT-Related Adverse Events from Patient Safety Organizations
Kathy Kenyon | December 22, 2014
Today ONC posted a final summary report on Health Information Technology Adverse Event Reporting: Analysis of Two Databases.
Read Full Post.Promoting Patient Safety by Managing Health IT Risks
Kathy Kenyon | July 10, 2014
Everyone agrees that health IT safety is important. Promoting Patient Safety Through Effective Health Information Technology Risk Management is a research report that looks into the challenges faced by hospitals and ambulatory practices that implement health IT risk management interventions. The research was conducted by RAND Corporation and the ECRI Institute under contract to ONC.
Read Full Post.A Guide: How to Identify and Address Unsafe Conditions Associated with Health IT
Kathy Kenyon | December 5, 2013
When front line clinicians confront a clinical mishap or unsafe condition in EHR-enabled healthcare settings (such as a medication error or a missed diagnosis) they may not connect the clinical event with how EHR use could have helped prevent it, how misuse or failure to use EHR functionality as intended contributed to the problem, or how weaknesses in EHR configuration, interfaces, or usability contributed.
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