Patient safety problems from healthcare information technology in medical imaging

Timothy J Schultz; Natalie Hannaford; Catherine Mandel

doi:10.1259/bjrcr.20150107

Patient safety problems from healthcare information technology in medical imaging

Timothy J Schultz, Natalie Hannaford, Catherine Mandel

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	20150107
Number of pages	4
Journal	BJR case reports
Volume	2
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150107
Publication status	Published - May 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Health information technology (HIT)
HIT systems
medical imaging
medical imaging departments
diagnostic accuracy
patient safety
patient harm
picture archiving systems (PACS)
Radiology Events Register (RaER)

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