Becker's Healthcare May 13, 2019
Andrea Park

The majority of reported patient safety events involving health information technology see either ineffective resolutions or none at all, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management.

Researchers from MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare analyzed a database of more than 1.7 million patient safety event reports. Of those related to health IT, 64 percent listed no resolution at all.

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