Health IT and patient safety : building safer systems for better care

Author/Creator:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology

Publication/Creation:

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2012]

Resource Type:

Book

More Details

Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Health IT and patient safety : building safer systems for better care / Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology, Board on Health Care Services

Variant Titles:

Health information technologies and patient safety

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Patients--Safety measures--Data processing
Information technology--United States
Medical informatics--United States
Information storage and retrieval systems--Medicine
Patients--United States--Safety measures
Health Facilities
Patient Safety
Medical Errors--prevention & control
Medical Informatics Applications
United States

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction -- Evaluating the current state of patient safety and health IT -- Examination of the current state of the art in system safety and its relationship to the safety of health IT-assisted care -- Opportunities to build a safer system for health IT -- Patients' and families' use of health IT: Concerns about safety -- A shared responsibility for improving health IT safety -- Future research for care transformation -- Appendixes -- A: Glossary -- B: Literature review methods -- C: Abstract of "roadmap for provision of safer healthcare information systems: Preventing e-Iatrogenesis." -- D: Abstract of "The impact of regulation on innovation in the United States: A cross-industry literature review" -- E: Dissenting statement: Health it is a class III medical device -- F: Committee member and staff biographies.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xxii, 211 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

General Note:

CD-ROM includes complete report with supplemental materials.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990031132470302486

ISBN:

9780309221122 (pbk.)
9780309221139 (PDF)
0309221129 (pbk.)
0309221137 (PDF)

OCLC Number:

778040115

Barcode:

070000136193