SAFER Electronic Health Records Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience

Introduction

Defining Health Information Technology-related Errors: New Developments Since To Err is Human; Dean F. Sittig and Hardeep Singh

Eight Rights of Safe Electronic Health Record Use; Dean F. Sittig and Hardeep Singh

Electronic Health Record–Related Safety Concerns: A Cross-Sectional Survey; Shailaja Menon, Hardeep Singh, Ashley N.D. Meyer, Elisabeth Belmont, and Dean F. Sittig

Review of Reported Clinical Information System Adverse Events in US Food and Drug Administration Databases; Risa B. Myers, Stephen L. Jones, and Dean F. Sittig

Exploring the Sociotechnical Intersection of Patient Safety and Electronic Health Record Implementation; Derek W. Meeks, Amirhossein Takian, Dean F. Sittig, Hardeep Singh, and Nick Barber

An Analysis of Electronic Health Record-Related Patient Safety Concerns; Derek W. Meeks, Michael W. Smith, Lesley Taylor, Dean F. Sittig, Jeanie Scott, and Hardeep Singh

Rights and Responsibilities of Electronic Health Record Users; Dean F. Sittig and Hardeep Singh

Rights and Responsibilities of EHR Users Caring for Children; Dean F. Sittig, Hardeep Singh, and Christopher A. Longhurst

A New Socio-technical Model for Studying Health Information Technology in Complex Adaptive Healthcare Systems; Dean F. Sittig and Hardeep Singh

Electronic Health Records and National Patient Safety Goals; Dean F. Sittig and Hardeep Singh

Safety Assurance Factors for Electronic Health Record Resilience (SAFER): Study Protocol; Hardeep Singh, Joan S. Ash, and Dean F. Sittig

The SAFER Guides: Empowering Organizations to Improve the Safety and Effectiveness of Electronic Health Records; Dean F. Sittig, Joan S. Ash, and Hardeep Singh

A Red-Flag Based Approach to Risk Management of EHR-Related Safety Concerns; Dean F. Sittig and Hardeep Singh

High Priority Practices for EHR Safety; SAFER Guides

Contingency Planning for Electronic Health Record-based Care Continuity: A Survey of Recommended Practices; Dean F. Sittig, Daniel Gonzalez, and Hardeep Singh

Downtime; SAFER Guides

Field Study of the System Interfaces SAFER Guide; Rodney E. Howell, Hardeep Singh, and Dean F. Sittig

System-System Interfaces; SAFER Guides

Hardware/Software Configuration; SAFER Guides

Matching Identifiers in Electronic Health Records: Implications for Duplicate Records and Patient Safety; Allison B. McCoy, Adam Wright, Michael G. Kahn, Jason S. Shapiro, Elmer V. Bernstam, and Dean F. Sittig

SAFER Self-Assessment: Patient Identification; SAFER Guides

Development and Field Testing of a Self-Assessment Guide for Computer-Based Provider Order Entry; Carl V. Vartian, Hardeep Singh, Elise Russo, and Dean F. Sittig

Computerized Provider Order Entry with Clinical Decision Support; SAFER Guides

Improving Follow-Up of Abnormal Cancer Screens Using Electronic Health Records: Trust but Verify Test Result Communication; Hardeep Singh, Lindsey Wilson, Laura A Petersen, Mona K Sawhney, Brian Reis, Donna Espadas and Dean F Sittig

Improving Test Result Follow-up through Electronic Health Records Requires More than Just an Alert; Dean F. Sittig and Hardeep Singh

Ten Strategies to Improve Management of Abnormal Test Result Alerts in the Electronic Health Record; Hardeep Singh, Lindsey Wilson, Brian Reis, Mona K. Sawhney, Donna Espadas, and Dean F. Sittig

SAFER Self-Assessment Guide: Test Result Reporting and Follow-up; SAFER Guides

Improving the Effectiveness of Electronic Health Record-Based Referral Processes; Adol Esquivel, Dean F. Sittig, Daniel R. Murphy, and Hardeep Singh

SAFER Self-Assessment Guide: Clinician Communication; SAFER Guides

Sociotechnical Evaluation of the Safety and Effectiveness of Point-of-Care Mobile Computing Devices: A Case Study Conducted in India; Dean F. Sittig, Kanav Kahol, and Hardeep Singh

Resilient Practices in Maintaining Safety of Health Information Technologies; Michael W. Smith, Joan S. Ash, Dean F. Sittig, and Hardeep Singh

SAFER Self-Assessment Guide: Organizational Activities and Responsibilities for Electronic Health Record (EHR) Safety; SAFER Guides

Creating an Oversight Infrastructure for Electronic Health Record-Related Patient Safety Hazards; Hardeep Singh, David C. Classen, and Dean F. Sittig

Patient Safety Goals for the Proposed Federal Health Information Technology Safety Center; Dean F. Sittig, David C. Classen, and Hardeep Singh

Index

Biography

Dean F. Sittig, PhD, is a professor at the School of Biomedical Informatics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and a member of the UT Houston-Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety, Houston, Texas. Dr. Sittig’s research interests center on the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of all aspects of clinical information systems. In addition to Dr. Sittig’s work on measuring the impact of clinical information systems on a large scale, he is working to improve our understanding of both the factors that lead to success, as well as the unintended consequences associated with computer-based clinical decision support and provider order entry systems. He is the co-author of three award-winning books from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH, is chief of the Health Policy, Quality & Informatics program at the Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Houston, Texas, and associate professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is a practicing internist and conducts multidisciplinary research on patient safety improvement in electronic health record-based clinical settings. Dr. Singh received the Academy-Health 2012 Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award for high-impact research of international significance. In April 2014, he received the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama for his pioneering work in the field of diagnostic errors and patient safety improvement.