Safety use of hospital information systems: a preliminary investigation
One of the strategies to enhance patient safety due to medical errors is through the use of Hospital Information Systems (HIS). However, previous studies have revealed that its usage introduces new class of errors called technology-induced errors. These errors occurred when HIS is poorly designed, i...
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| description | One of the strategies to enhance patient safety due to medical errors is through the use of Hospital Information Systems (HIS). However, previous studies have revealed that its usage introduces new class of errors called technology-induced errors. These errors occurred when HIS is poorly designed, implemented or used. The antecedents of HIS related errors originated from various factors. It is essential to ascertain the root cause for safe use of HIS in order to reduce the technology-induced errors. Hence, this preliminary study is aimed to explore and identify the antecedents towards safety use of HIS. Semi-structured interviews were conducted at a teaching university hospital, a government hospital, and the Malaysian Ministry of Health from May till July 2014. Six respondents who are experienced HIS users, and also involved in the development of HIS were individually interviewed. Six themes emerged from the semi-structured interviews. This study adds knowledge to HIS research by considering sociotechnical aspect of safety HIS usage. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-553592016-09-04T02:11:49Z http://eprints.utm.my/55359/ Safety use of hospital information systems: a preliminary investigation Salahuddin, Lizawati Ismail, Zuraini T55-55.3 Industrial Safety. Industrial Accident Prevention One of the strategies to enhance patient safety due to medical errors is through the use of Hospital Information Systems (HIS). However, previous studies have revealed that its usage introduces new class of errors called technology-induced errors. These errors occurred when HIS is poorly designed, implemented or used. The antecedents of HIS related errors originated from various factors. It is essential to ascertain the root cause for safe use of HIS in order to reduce the technology-induced errors. Hence, this preliminary study is aimed to explore and identify the antecedents towards safety use of HIS. Semi-structured interviews were conducted at a teaching university hospital, a government hospital, and the Malaysian Ministry of Health from May till July 2014. Six respondents who are experienced HIS users, and also involved in the development of HIS were individually interviewed. Six themes emerged from the semi-structured interviews. This study adds knowledge to HIS research by considering sociotechnical aspect of safety HIS usage. Springer Verlag 2015 Article PeerReviewed Salahuddin, Lizawati and Ismail, Zuraini (2015) Safety use of hospital information systems: a preliminary investigation. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 224 . pp. 707-721. ISSN 1865-1348 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21009-4_52 DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-21009-4_52 |
| spellingShingle | T55-55.3 Industrial Safety. Industrial Accident Prevention Salahuddin, Lizawati Ismail, Zuraini Safety use of hospital information systems: a preliminary investigation |
| title | Safety use of hospital information systems: a preliminary investigation |
| title_full | Safety use of hospital information systems: a preliminary investigation |
| title_fullStr | Safety use of hospital information systems: a preliminary investigation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Safety use of hospital information systems: a preliminary investigation |
| title_short | Safety use of hospital information systems: a preliminary investigation |
| title_sort | safety use of hospital information systems a preliminary investigation |
| topic | T55-55.3 Industrial Safety. Industrial Accident Prevention |
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