Adopting high reliability organization principles to lead a large scale clinical transformation.

Laura D Pozzobon; Jessica Lam; Elisa Chimonides; Brenda Perkins-Meingast; Wing-Si Luk

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Adopting high reliability organization principles to lead a large scale clinical transformation.

April 26, 2023

Pozzobon LD, Lam J, Chimonides E, et al. Healthc Manage Forum. 2023;36(4):241-245.

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High-reliability organizations are able to achieve safety despite organizational changes or other hazardous conditions. This article describes the implementation of a new electronic health record (EHR) system at one academic health system in Canada and provides examples of how high-reliability principles informed activities to prevent patient harm during this organizational change.

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