• Am J Manag Care · Apr 2012

    Chasing high performance: best business practices for using health information technology to advance patient safety.

    • Jennifer S Myers and Richard P Shannon.
    • University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. jennifer.myers@uphs.upenn.edu
    • Am J Manag Care. 2012 Apr 1; 18 (4): e121-5.

    AbstractThe emergence of information technology in healthcare holds the promise to transform the industry through the creation of highly reliable information exchange. These same technologies have a central role in the patient safety movement. Organizations that wish to deliver safe and high-quality healthcare will only be successful if they plan, develop, and use health information systems with the principles of high-performing organizations in mind. We discuss the current state of health information technology in the patient safety movement, how this technology can contribute to high organizational performance, and some caveats.

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