Title
Health information technology: Anticipating, recognizing, and preventing disruptions in complex adaptive healthcare systems
Date Issued
30 September 2013
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
IGI Global
Abstract
Healthcare organizations are increasingly willing to develop more efficient and higher quality processes to combat the competition and enhance financial viability by adopting contemporary solutions such as Health Information Technology (HIT). However, technological failures occur and represent a contemporary organizational development priority resulting from incongruent organization-technology interfaces. Technologically induced system failure has been defined as technological iatrogenesis. The chapter offers the Healthcare Iatrogenesis Model as an organizational development strategy to guide the responsible implementation of HIT projects. By recognizing the etiology of incongruent organizational interfaces and anticipating patient safety concerns, leaders can proactively respond to system limitations and identify hidden process instabilities prior to costly and consequential catastrophic events.
Start page
214
End page
235
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Políticas de salud, Servicios de salud
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84956816439
ISBN
9781466645479
Resource of which it is part
Handbook of Research on Patient Safety and Quality Care through Health Informatics
ISBN of the container
978-146664547-9, 1466645466, 978-146664546-2
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus