The role of the electronic health record in patient safety events
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Pennsylvania patient safety advisory
- Contributor(s):
- Sparnon, Erin. Marella, William M. Pennsylvania. Patient Safety Authority. ECRI (Organization) Institute for Safe Medication Practices.
- Publication:
- [Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, c2012
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Electronic Health Records -- trends Medical Errors -- trends Patient safety Role Disclosure Forecasting Medical Errors -- classification Medical Errors -- statistics & numerical data Medical Informatics Computing -- trends Risk Assessment Humans Pennsylvania United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- As adoption of health information technology solutions like electronic health records (EHRs) has increased across the United States, increasing attention is being paid to the safety and risk profile of these technologies. However, several groups have called out a lack of available safety data as a major challenge to assessing EHR safety, and this study was performed to inform the field about the types of EHR-related errors and problems reported to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and to serve as a basis for further study. Authority analysts queried the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System for reports related to EHR technologies and performed an exploratory analysis of 3,099 reports using a previously published classification structure specific to health information technology. The majority of EHR-related reports involved errors in human data entry, such as entry of "wrong" data or the failure to enter data, and a few reports indicated technical failures on the part of the EHR system. This may reflect the clinical mindset of frontline caregivers who report events to the Authority.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (pages 113-121))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101597648 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101597648