Wednesday, September 26, 2012

IOM Group Calls for IT User-Feedback System


Conn, Joseph. "IOM Group Calls for IT User-Feedback System." Modern Healthcare.com, September 24, 2012.

From the report: "A discussion paper from a work group affiliated with the Institute of Medicine proposes ways to report clinicians' experiences using health information technology. Such a reporting system could forestall the development of federal regulations targeting IT vendors, the paper's authors said.

The authors of the 11-page "Comparative User Experiences of Health IT Products: How User Experiences Would Be Reported and Used" (PDF), propose "a voluntary, multimodal, multistakeholder approach" to health IT safety reporting, including the reporting of patient safety hazards introduced by the use of IT systems." Read more


See also
Sinsky, Christine, A. et al. "Comparative User Experiences of Health IT Products: How User Experiences Would Be Reported and Used." September 2012.