The Safety of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Systems What does EMR Safety mean and how can we engineer safer systems? Jens H. Weber-Jahnke Department of Computer Science University of Victoria Victoria, B.C., Canada Fieran Mason-Blakley Department of Computer Science University of Victoria Victoria, B.C., Canada jens@acm.org fmason@uvic.ca ABSTRACT Information and communication technology is rapidly transforming modern health care systems. Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) systems have replaced traditional forms of storing, processing, interpreting and exchanging patient health in many health care organizations. However, an increasing number of concerns are raised about the quality of EMR systems and industry regulators are pondering ways to ensure safer health information technologies. This paper discusses fundamental concepts associated with the safety of EMR systems, describes current approaches to regulating the industry, and discusses limitations of traditional safety engineering methods with respect to their application to EMR systems. We then present a domain-speci c adaptation of Leveson s system-theoretic model STAMP for safety engineering of EMR systems and demonstrate its application with a real-world case study. However, the increasing di usion of EMR technologies in medical practice has been met with growing concerns about their safety implications. While researchers have initially published predominantly about
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The safety of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems: what does EMR safety mean and how can we engineer safer systems?
Weber-Jahnke, Jens H.; Mason-Blakley, Fieran
ACM SIGHIT Record
, Volume 1 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 2011
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