In ECRI Institute's new 2014 "Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations", Healthcare IT is #1. (FDA: E-cigarettes are REALLY dangerous.)

The ECRI Institute in Pennsylvania (https://www.ecri.org/About/Pages/default.aspx) has had health IT as among the "Top Ten Healthcare Technology Risks" for several years running.  Search this blog on "ECRI" for mention of those reports.Just off the press, though, is ECRI's "Top Ten patient safety concerns for 2014".  The PDF report is available at https://www.ecri.org/EmailResources/PSRQ/Top10/Top10PSRQ.pdf.Health IT is number one, perhaps as a result of the ECRI Deep Dive study of Health IT risk with its hair-raising numbers of 171 "IT incidents", 8 resultant injuries, and 3 possible deaths in 36 hospitals in just 9 weeks (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/02/peering-underneath-icebergs-water-level.html).From the new report: CONCERN #1: Data integrity failures with health information technology systemsAt page 7: With the federal government offering financial incentives for hospitals and physician practices to adopt EHR systems, use of these systems more than tripled from 2009 through 2012. “Health IT systems are very complex,” says James P. Keller, M.S., vice president, technology evaluation and safety, ECRI Institute. “They are managing a lot of information, and it’s easy to get something wrong” if the systems are not designed and implemented well. While appropriately designed and implemented systems can provide complete, current, and accurate patient care information so that the clinician can make appropriate treatment decisions, the presence of incorr...
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