Technology failures (17 July 2024)

Summary

Technology in healthcare has expanded substantially over the last two decades. From electronic health records and barcode scanning to intravenous pump integration and best practice alerts, the work of healthcare providers is more automated now than ever before. But does this technology always make patient care safer? What happens when things don’t go as planned? The Patient Safety journal highlights examples of reported events that illustrate errors based, at least in part, on the reliance of technology.