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Tag: IT
In a survey recently conducted by National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in the US, NNU concluded that “artificial intelligence technology (A.I.) often contradicts and undermines nurses’ own clinical judgment and threatens patient safety.”
Continue reading “Are Artificial Intelligence and IT a Threat to Patient Safety?”
This article is a submission by Tim Blake, Managing Director of Semantic Consulting. He can be found on Twitter (@timblake1978). You can join PPAHS’ ongoing efforts to find and disseminate best practices in patient safety by submitting an article here.
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Sharing data in healthcare is hard. Way harder than it should be.
The lack of willingness on the part of some healthcare providers and health IT vendors to safely and easily share patient health information with patients and other health providers is an unacceptable position in our increasingly digital age. Continue reading “Health data interoperability is a patient safety issue”