WARNING health IT may be hazardous to your healthcare.

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WARNING health IT may be hazardous to your healthcare.

March 12, 2014

Dimick C.

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This article relates the development of a taxonomy that hospitals and vendors can use to detect, sort, and analyze risks associated with health information technology (IT) and explains how organizations should respond once a hazard is identified. The author describes a plan to integrate the tool into the Patient Safety Organization reporting system.

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