Safety of Health IT

1. First Do No Harm: An Overview of HIT and Patient Safety
Abha Agrawal

2. An Overview of HIT-Related Errors
Farah Magrabi, Mei-sing Ong, Enrico Coiera

Part I. Errors Related to Various Types of Health Information Technologies

3. Errors Related to CPOE
Jan Horsky

4. Errors Related to Alert Fatigue
Heleen Sijs

5. Errors Related to Bar Code-Assisted Medication Administration
Jonathan S. Bagby

6. Errors Related to Outpatient E-Prescribing
Olufunmilola Abraham, Loren J. Schleiden, Michelle A. Chui

7. Errors Related to Alarms and Monitors
JoAnne Phillips

8. Errors Related to Personal Mobile Technology
Christine Jorm, Lucinda Roper

Part II. Health Information Technology Implementation Issues

9. Improving Clinical Documentation Integrity
Anupam Goel

10. EHR and Physician–Patient Communication
Richard M. Frankel

11. Patient Identification Errors and HIT: Friend or Foe?
Daniel Hyman, Lynn Voss

12. Errors Related to Health Information Exchange
Carol J. Parker, Julia Adler-Milstein

Part III. Specialty Considerations

13. Safety Considerations in Radiation Therapy
Eric C. Ford, Michael G. Herman

14. Safety Considerations in Pediatric Informatics
S. Andrew Spooner

15. Safety Considerations in Ambulatory Care Informatics
Eric Rose

Part IV. Organizational Considerations

16. HIT and Medical Liability Risks
Sandeep S. Mangalmurti

17. Improving HIT Safety Through Enterprise Risk Management
Elizabeth M. Borycki, Andre Kushniruk

18. Managing HIT Contract Process for Patient Safety
Marilyn Lamar

19. Improving Safety of Medical Device Use Through Training
Peter A. Doyle

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Health Informatics, Practice and Hospital Management, Health Administration, General Practice / Family Medicine