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Health IT Safety & Unintended Consequences

How health IT causes harm, categories of unintended consequences, ONC SAFER Guides, safety event reporting and analysis, and building a health IT safety program.

Three phases of health IT safety

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Sittig & Singh describe three domains: 1. Safe health IT — technology that works correctly and is free of malfunctions. 2. Using health IT safely — people use it correctly and completely. 3. Using health IT to improve safety — leveraging IT to monitor and prevent harm (e.g. trigger tools, surveillance). A safety program addresses all three.