Authors:
- brings together the disciplines of patient safety, health informatics and
- safety engineering in a simple and comprehensive text
- Offers a practical and systematic method for identifying potential hazards in Health IT systems and presents options for how these risk can be mitigated
- Demonstrates how residual risk can be justified by objectively developing a structured argument and presenting evidence in the form of a balanced safety case
Part of the book series: Health Informatics (HI)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Risk and Safety
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The Causes of Risk in Health IT
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Getting Your Organisation Ready
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Undertaking a Clinical Risk Management Project
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About this book
This is a practical book for health and IT professionals who need to ensure that patient safety is prioritized in the design and implementation of clinical information technology.
Healthcare professionals are increasingly reliant on information technology to deliver care and inform their clinical decision making. Health IT provides enormous benefits in efficiency, communication and decision making. However a number of high-profile UK and US studies have concluded that when Health IT is poorly designed or sub-optimally implemented then patient safety can be compromised.
Manufacturers and healthcare organizations are increasingly required to demonstrate that their Health IT solutions are proactively assured. Surprisingly the majority of systems are not subject to regulation so there is little in the way of practical guidance as to how risk management can be achieved. The book fills that gap.
The author, a doctor and IT professional, harnesses his two decades ofexperience to characterize the hazards that health technology can introduce. Risk can never be eliminated but by drawing on lessons from other safety-critical industries the book systematically sets out how clinical risk can be strategically controlled. The book proposes the employment of a Safety Case to articulate and justify residual risk so that not only is risk proactively managed but it is seen to be managed. These simple techniques drive product quality and allow a technology’s benefits to be realized without compromising patient safety.
Authors and Affiliations
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Sheffield, United Kingdom
Adrian Stavert-Dobson
About the author
Adrian Stavert-Dobson is a medical doctor, computer programmer and health informatician. He successfully developed his first eHealth solution aged just 18 and went on to study Medicine at the University of Leicester. His passion for technology took him from clinical practice in anesthetics to full-time Hhealth IT working with a number of innovative software suppliers in the UK and abroad.
A strong advocate for patient safety, Adrian has specialized in the management of clinical risk in Health IT systems. Working alongside professional safety engineers he has adapted techniques well-established in other safety critical industries to the healthcare domain.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Information Systems
Book Subtitle: Managing Clinical Risk
Authors: Adrian Stavert-Dobson
Series Title: Health Informatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26612-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26610-7Published: 04 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79980-3Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26612-1Published: 21 December 2015
Series ISSN: 1431-1917
Series E-ISSN: 2197-3741
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 305
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Health Informatics, Health Informatics, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk