OBJECTIVE: In this paper we review progress as well as challenges encountered in
Canada, the United States and England with regard to ensuring safety of health information …

OBJECTIVE: To collect and critically review patient safety initiatives for health information
technology (HIT). METHOD: Publicly promulgated set of advisories, recommendations …

Objectives: The objectives of this paper are to review and discuss the methods that are
being used internationally to report on, mitigate, and eliminate technology-induced errors …

Health information systems (HISs) are typically seen as a mechanism for reducing medical
errors. However, there is evidence to suggest that technology can facilitate or induce …

Objectives: Issues related to lack of system usability and potential safety hazards continue to
be reported in the health information technology (HIT) literature. Usability engineering …

Abstract The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is
expected to oversee creation of a Health Information Technology (HIT) Safety Center. While …

We identify and describe nine key, short-term, challenges to help healthcare organizations,
health information technology developers, researchers, policymakers, and funders focus …

Alongside their benefits health IT applications can pose new risks to patient safety. Problems
with IT have been linked to many different types of clinical errors including prescribing and …

Objectives Health information technology (HIT) research findings suggested that new
healthcare technologies could reduce some types of medical errors while at the same time …

The objective of this paper is to analyze healthcare information technology (HIT) events
associated with patient harm submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) …