NIST workshop " The Role of Standards in Preventing & Mitigating Health IT Patient Safety Risks " perhaps should be titled " The Role of Common Sense in Preventing & Mitigating Health IT Patient Safety Risks Before Rolling Out Bad Health IT Nationally "

Ready, fire, aim.As I wrote in 2010-12 at "Cart before the horse" posts at http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/10/cart-before-horse-again-institute-of.html and http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2012/06/cart-before-horse-part-3-ahrqs-health.html, rolling out health IT nationally before having a firm grasp of its risks was an abrogation of medical ethics and long standing treatises on medical experimentation, including the need for informed consent, dating back to the post-WW2 period.Ready, fire, aim: let ' s roll out health IT nationally, then figure out how to make it safe...Now we have this " workshop " to be held September 7, 2016:http://www.nist.gov/healthcare/usability/the-role-of-standards-in-preventing-and-mitigating-health-it-patient-safety-risks-workshop.cfmThe Role of Standards in Preventing& Mitigating Health IT Patient Safety RisksPurpose:Health IT Community Technical Workshop for all Stakeholders: Learn and Share Industry Best Practices.Objectives:Bring together all Health IT stakeholders to share best practices and review the fundamentals of risk prevention and mitigation that apply to Health IT. Health IT standards are part of the foundation needed to deliver high quality, patient-centric care.The industry continues to gain a better understanding of the relationship between managing risk and providing quality care through the safe use of Health IT.This forum is an opportunity to receive updates on the latest standards development process relat...
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