Measuring and improving patient safety through health information technology: The Health IT Safety Framework

Measuring and improving patient safety through health information technology: The Health IT Safety Framework

Author: British Medical Journal

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Health information technology (health IT) has potential to improve patient safety but its implementation and use has led to unintended consequences and new safety concerns. A key challenge to improving safety in health IT-enabled healthcare systems is to develop valid, feasible strategies to measure safety concerns at the intersection of health IT and patient safety. This article proposes a new framework, the Health IT Safety (HITS) measurement framework, to provide a conceptual foundation for health IT-related patient safety measurement, monitoring, and improvement.

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