Healthcare IT Today May 22, 2019
Anne Zieger

In theory, health IT solutions are put in place to prevent errors from taking place, but sometimes they’re actually the cause of the error. Worse, in many cases these HIT-related safety problems are never resolved, according to a new research paper.

The study, which was conducted by three researchers with the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare at Medstar Health, relied on a database of 1.7 million patient safety event reports. Researchers filtered the data to identify events related to health IT issues.

Once the HIT-related safety events were identified, the research team then reviewed and coded these events as falling into one of four categories: No Resolution, Training/Education, Policy or Information Technology-oriented solution.

Upon analysis, the researchers found...

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