Resilient practices in maintaining safety of health information technologies

Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 265-282

  Smith, Michael W ^a   Ash, Joan S ^b   Sittig, Dean F ^c   Singh, Hardeep ^a  

^a MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

domains; health care delivery; information systems; naturalistic decision making; resilience engineering; topics

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEMS; HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NATURALISTIC DECISION MAKINGS; RESILIENCE ENGINEERINGS; TOPICS;

MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84908080423     PISSN: 15553434     EISSN: 21695032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555343414534242     Document Type: Article

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