Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology.
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.
Publisher:
National Academies Press,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
xxii, 211 p. col. ill. ; 23 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
CD-ROM includes complete report with supplemental materials. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
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 -- Shared responsibility for improving health IT safety -- Future research for care transformation.
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