Health Information Systems Managing Clinical Risk /

• Main Author: Stavert-Dobson, Adrian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Health Informatics,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health informatics.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Informatics.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.

This book provides practical guidance regarding the safe manufacture and implementation of health information technology (IT), consolidating what has been learnt in the industry over the last 10-15 years. Healthcare professionals are increasingly reliant on IT to deliver care and inform their clinic...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Standards and Quality Management in Health IT
• The Nature of Risk and Safety
• Acceptability and Ownership of Risk
• The Safety Management System
• Undertaking a Clinical Risk Management Project
• The Scope of Clinical Risk Management
• The Hazardous Environment
• Failure of Health IT
• A Framework for Hazards in Health IT Systems
• Structuring the Hazard Register
• Populating the Hazard Register
• Estimating and Evaluating Clinical Risk
• Developing Control Strategies
• Software Testing in Clinical Risk Management
• Gathering Evidence for the Safety Case
• Developing the Safety Case
• Handling Faults in Live Service
• The Safety Case in Live Service
• Availability and Performance
• Evidencing Competency
• Language and Writing Style.