Alert fatigue is known to contribute to medical error. This news article reports on the problem of clinically irrelevant alarms overwhelming clinicians and what hospitals and health information technology vendors are doing to decrease them. Strategies include applying human factors engineering concepts to alert triggers and designing spaces to reduce alarm-associated interruptions and fatigue.

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Distractions can lead to care and process omissions. Reporting on the prevalence of mobile technology in the operating room and how it can hinder teamwork, this news article calls for guidance to regulate smartphone use in health care environments to enhance safety of care delivery.