Promoting Patient Safety Through Effective Health Information Technology Risk Management

• Main Author: Schneider, Eric C. (auth)
• Other Authors: Ridgely, M. Susan (auth), Meeker, Daniella (auth), Hunter, Lauren E. (auth), Khodyakov, Dmitry (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2014
• Subjects: History of the Americas; Health systems & services; Medicolegal issues; Clinical & internal medicine; Health Sciences; History
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Health information technology (IT) has the potential to improve the safety of health care, but if not carefully implemented, health IT can also introduce new risks and even harm. The authors of this report evaluated the efforts of 11 hospitals and ambulatory practices to use an improvement strategy...