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Investigating Incidents of EHR Failures in China: Analysis of Search Engine Reports
Jianbo Lei, Pengcheng Guan, Kaihua Gao, Xueqing Lu, Dean Sittig
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10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-1210
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume 192: MEDINFO 2013
Abstract

As the healthcare industry becomes increasingly dependent on information technology (IT), the failure of computerized systems could cause catastrophic effects on patient safety. We conducted an empirical study to analyze news articles available on the internet using Baidu and Google. 116 distinct EHR outage news reports were identified. We examined characteristics, potential causes, and possible preventive strategies. Risk management strategies based are discussed.

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