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Implications of electronic health record downtime: an analysis of patient safety event reports

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Important areas of risk during EHR downtime periods were patient identification and communication of clinical information; these should be a focus of downtime procedure planning to reduce safety hazards.
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This article is published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.The article was published on 2018-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 41 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Downtime & Patient safety.

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Current challenges in health information technology-related patient safety.

TL;DR: These challenges represent key “to-do’s” that must be completed before the authors can expect to have safe, reliable, and efficient health information technology–based systems required to care for patients.
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Physicians' and nurses' experiences on EHR usability: Comparison between the professional groups by employment sector and system brand

TL;DR: Nurses' and physicians' experiences on EHR usability appear to vary more by EHR brand and employment sector rather than either professional group being generally more satisfied, which should consider the perspectives of these two main user groups and their working contexts.
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EARS to cyber incidents in health care.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the literature on cybersecurity response plans in healthcare is conducted and a novel framework for response strategies that could be deployed by healthcare organizations is developed.
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Data breach remediation efforts and their implications for hospital quality

TL;DR: Breach remediation efforts were associated with deterioration in timeliness of care and patient outcomes and breached hospitals and HHS oversight should carefully evaluate remedial security initiatives to achieve better data security without negatively affecting patient outcomes.
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The effects and preventability of 2627 patient safety incidents related to health information technology failures: a retrospective analysis of 10 years of incident reporting in England and Wales.

TL;DR: There is a need to see health IT as a fundamental tenet of patient safety, develop better methods for capturing the effects of IT failures on patients, and adopt simple measures to reduce their probability and mitigate their risk.
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