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7 years 11 months ago #2443 by Lisa Sever
Medication Errors Attributed to Health Information Technology was created by Lisa Sever
This alert describes medication errors that are attributed to the use of IT solutions for medication management in hospitals.

Errors include: over-riding alerts (or disable them!), workarounds due to workflow problems, free texting, incorrect weights entered, downtime procedures

They offer a multitude of strategies to improve medication safety with HIT.

patientsafetyauthority.org/ADVISORIES/AdvisoryLibrary/2017/Mar;14(1)/documents/01.pdf

CPOE errors were over 50%.

To help identify HIT based errors, they added a reporting prompt "Did Health IT cause or contribute to this event?"

This is a must read for organizations.

Lisa

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