Guided Notes
Health IT Safety & Unintended Consequences
How health IT causes harm, categories of unintended consequences, ONC SAFER Guides, safety event reporting and analysis, and building a health IT safety program.
Three phases of health IT safety
Slide 1 / 5Sittig & Singh describe three domains: 1. Safe health IT — technology that works correctly and is free of malfunctions. 2. Using health IT safely — people use it correctly and completely. 3. Using health IT to improve safety — leveraging IT to monitor and prevent harm (e.g. trigger tools, surveillance). A safety program addresses all three.