How health information technology systems affect healthcare management
Hospitals in the USA, the UK and Australia have a culture of collecting and analysing incident reports in order to learn from their mistakes and improve healthcare quality and patient safety. However, this kind of study is unusual in Sweden; Jabin and Ding present their Swedish study of health information technology (HIT)-related incident reports to illuminate the current challenges Swedish digital healthcare systems face.
- The study of incident reports is one of the most crucial aspects of healthcare quality and patient safety management, says MD Shafiqur Rahman Jabin, Assistant Professor in Public Health, University of Bradford, UK.
Jabin has earlier conducted a similar study in Australia, exploring nearly 5,000 medical imaging-related incident reports. During this seminar, Jabin and Ding will present their analysis and findings from 95 Swedish HIT-related incidents.
- The Swedish society is ambitious in developing new HIT systems with the aim of improving healthcare quality. But it is also essential to improve the already existing HIT systems and the care delivery around the systems by solving the clinical problems we encounter in our day-to-day clinical practice rather than always building new technologies.
