Patient safety problems from healthcare information technology in medical imaging

Health information technology (HIT) systems have been deployed extensively by healthcare organizations and promoted as a panacea to many of the challenges faced by medical imaging departments, particularly with respect to workflow, efficiency and diagnostic accuracy. This report describes how inadeq...

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Autores principales: Schultz, Timothy J, Hannaford, Natalie, Mandel, Catherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2015
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Technical Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150107
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description Health information technology (HIT) systems have been deployed extensively by healthcare organizations and promoted as a panacea to many of the challenges faced by medical imaging departments, particularly with respect to workflow, efficiency and diagnostic accuracy. This report describes how inadequate planning, integration, training and testing of HIT can impact on patient safety and result in patient harm.
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spelling pubmed-61808682018-10-25 Patient safety problems from healthcare information technology in medical imaging Schultz, Timothy J Hannaford, Natalie Mandel, Catherine BJR Case Rep Technical Note Health information technology (HIT) systems have been deployed extensively by healthcare organizations and promoted as a panacea to many of the challenges faced by medical imaging departments, particularly with respect to workflow, efficiency and diagnostic accuracy. This report describes how inadequate planning, integration, training and testing of HIT can impact on patient safety and result in patient harm. The British Institute of Radiology 2015-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6180868/ /pubmed/30363695 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150107 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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