Safety of Health IT

Abha Agrawal, MD, FACPChief Clinical Operations OfficerIKS Health, New York, NY

Chapter 1 - First Do No Harm: An overview of HIT and Patient Safety.- Chapter 2 - An overview of HIT-related errors.- Section I: Errors Related to Various Types of Health Information Technologies.- Chapter 3 - Errors related to CPOE.- Chapter 4 - Errors related to alert fatigue.- Chapter 5 - Unintended consequences of bar-code assisted medication administration.- Chapter 6 - Errors related to outpatient e-prescribing.- Chapter 7 - Errors related to alarms and monitors.- Chapter 8 - Errors related to personal mobile technology.- Section II: Health Information Technology Implementation Issues.- Chapter 9 - Improving clinical documentation integrity.- Chapter 10 - EHR and physician-patient communication.- Chapter 11 - Patient identification errors and HIT: Friend or foe?.- Chapter 12 - Errors related to health information exchange.- Section III: Specialty Considerations.- Chapter 13 - Safety considerations inradiation therapy.- Chapter 14 - Safety considerations in pediatric informatics.- Chapter 15 - Safety considerations in ambulatory care informatics.- Section IV: Organizational Considerations.- Chapter 16 - Health information technology and medical liability risks.- Chapter 17 - Improving safety through enterprise risk management.- Chapter 18 - Managing HIT contract process for patient safety.- Chapter 19 - Improving safety of medical device use through training.