Improving Patient Safety In The EU: HIT Should Be Classified As ...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Sat, 06/20/2009 - 09:39

Here is some sense on healthcare IT from the European Union, echoing a number of themes I've written about at Healthcare Renewal and my academic site on HIT difficulties and failures.

These themes revolve around the consideration of healthcare information systems, increasingly used to mediate many aspects of medical care delivery, as medical devices; that this is important due to the adverse consequences caused by ill designed and/or poorly implemented HIT; the need for validation and postmarketing surveillance...


 

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