hospitals
• Inconsistencies in design of alerts , flags , and color-coding between systems causing user confusion
• Inconsistencies between the printed version of laboratory reports and the user-screen display causing user confusion
Patient Safety Organizations ( PSOs ) are also identifying patterns of safety concerns associated with the adoption of health IT . Recognizing that such errors can occur without health IT systems , there is cause for concern as an occasional error in a health IT system can be replicated very quickly across a large number of patients . Combining documented patient safety events with the anecdotal evidence shared by individual laboratory professionals across the U . S . presents enough concern to warrant further
12 September 2014