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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care

About this resource:

HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: The National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine, 2011

Last Reviewed: November 2011

Workgroups: Health Communication and Health Information Technology Workgroup

This book provides recommendations for developing a framework for patient safety and health IT (information technology). Specifically, it focuses on reducing the risks of health IT-assisted care, and it identifies areas of concern to help put the nation in a better position to fully benefit from health IT.

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Objectives related to this resource (1)

Increase the proportion of adults offered online access to their medical record — HC/HIT‑06
Target met or exceeded

Suggested Citation

1.

Institute of Medicine. (2011). Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Retrieved from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24600741/