Download Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: 1 Pap/Cdr
Release: 2012-03-15
Publisher: National Academies Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0309221129
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Health IT and Patient Safety pdf
Description

IOM's 1999 landmark study To Err is Human estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 lives are lost every year due to medical errors. This call to action has led to a number of efforts to reduce errors and provide safe and effective health care. Information technology (IT) has been identified as a way to enhance the safety and effectiveness of care. In an effort to catalyze its implementation, the U.S. government has invested billions of dollars toward the development and meaningful use of effective health IT. Designed and properly applied, health IT can be a positive transformative force for delivering safe health care, particularly with computerized prescribing and medication safety. However, if it is designed and applied inappropriately, health IT can add an additional layer of complexity to the already complex delivery of health care. Poorly designed IT can introduce risks that may lead to unsafe conditions, serious injury, or even death. Poor human-computer interactions could result Download Health IT and Patient Safety for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

Download Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care pdf