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Health Information Technology: Anticipating, Recognizing, and Preventing Disruptions in Complex Adaptive Healthcare Systems

Health Information Technology: Anticipating, Recognizing, and Preventing Disruptions in Complex Adaptive Healthcare Systems
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Author(s): Patrick Albert Palmieri (A.T. Still University, USA & Association for the Accreditation of Ambulatory Health Care Services, USA & Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, PerĂº), Lori T. Peterson (Cleveland State University, USA)and Miguel Noe Ramirez Noeding (Clinica Santa Isabel, PerĂº & Association for the Accreditation of Ambulatory Health Care Services, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 22
Source title: Handbook of Research on Patient Safety and Quality Care through Health Informatics
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Vaughan Michell (University of Reading, UK), Deborah J. Rosenorn-Lanng (Royal Berkshire Hospital Foundation Trust Reading, UK), Stephen R. Gulliver (University of Reading, UK)and Wendy Currie (Audencia, Ecole de Management, Nantes, France)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4546-2.ch012

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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.

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