Information Technology Medical Errors

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499956/

Technology utilization to prevent medication errors

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20210714/

Medication errors have been increasingly recognized as a major cause of iatrogenic illness and system-wide improvements have been the focus of prevention …

Improving Safety with Information Technology | NEJM

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa020847

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29763131/

Medical errors cost approximately $20 billion a year. Medical errors in hospitals and clinics result in approximately 100,000 people dying each year. Medical …

Health IT's role in reducing medical errors - Health IT Buzz

https://www.healthit.gov/buzz-blog/electronic-health-and-medical-records/health-its-role-in-reducing-medical-errors

Health information technology is critical to reducing medical errors. Electronic medical records allow for reliable access and cross-checking of electronic …

Improved Diagnostics & Patient …

https://www.healthit.gov/topic/health-it-and-health-information-exchange-basics/improved-diagnostics-patient-outcomes

63% reported fewer medication errors. High Provider Satisfaction Reduced overall rate of after-hours clinic calls. Using EHRs to Improve Quality of Care 4 Improved Quality of Care …

Does Technology Gap Cause Medical …

https://healthmanagement.org/c/healthmanagement/issuearticle/does-technology-gap-cause-medical-errors

A study from the British Medical Journal (Makary and Daniel 2016) cites medical errors as the third leading cause of death in the U.S., after heart disease and cancer. The GAO report Electronic health …

Medical Errors | Agency for Healthcare Research and …

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Medical errors can occur anywhere in the health care system--in hospitals, clinics, surgery centers, doctors' offices, nursing homes, pharmacies, and patients' homes …

Information Technology and Medical Errors

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w13493/w13493.pdf

information technology we study is a decision support tool designed to notify physicians about potential medical “errors” as well as deviations from evidence based clinical …

Medical Errors Caused by Healthcare Technology

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Medical Errors Caused by Healthcare Technology Robotic surgery mishaps. Between 2000 and 2013, using data from 10,000 incident reports from the FDA, researchers from...