Health technology, quality and safety in a learning health system
Date
2022
Authors
Borycki, Elizabeth
Kushniruk, Andre
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Healthcare Management Forum
Abstract
Health technology quality and safety is an important issue for health informatics (i.e. digital health) professionals. Health
technologies have been used to (1) collect data that can be analyzed to improve the quality and safety of healthcare activities
and (2) re-engineer and/or automate error-prone processes. Health technologies are also able to introduce new types of errors (i.e.
technology-induced errors) and have been implicated in propagating errors across digital health ecosystems. To develop a learning
health system, health technologies need to be considered in terms of how they can improve the quality and safety of health activities
traditionally carried out by humans (patients and health professionals) and also how the technology’s quality and safety can be
improved. This paper outlines how this can be done by integrating evidence from health informatics research into practice using a
learning health systems approach.
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Borycki, E. M. & Kushniruk, A. W. (2022). “Health technology, quality and safety in a learning health system.” Healthcare Management Forum, 0(0), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1177/08404704221139383