Summary
The use of health technology has grown exponentially in the past few decades, and the proliferation and complexity of this technology has led to new risks to patient safety. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) discussed this issue in their report, Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, and concluded that achieving better health care requires “a robust infrastructure that supports learning and improving the safety of health IT.”
Content
In an interview for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Executive Director and patient safety expert Frank Federico describes the keys to success for using health technology safely. He discusses some common safety risks such as clinical alarm safety (now a Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal), poor training and support systems for new users of technology, and workarounds.
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