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Safety is paramount, but all healthcare activities bring risks. Some are more avoidable than others. The job of all system designers to ensure that their systems are as safe as possible. Safety is a property of an organization and must not be left to individuals. Organization and management culture create contributory factors relating to the work, environment, team, staff members, tasks and patients. These lead to care delivery problems (CDPs). Most systems have defenses and barriers designed to prevent adverse incidents, but these are not always successful. The London Protocol is used to investigate safety incidents in a structured way. The FHIR safety checklist helps designers improve safety related to interoperability.
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Benson, T., Grieve, G. (2021). Safety. In: Principles of Health Interoperability. Health Information Technology Standards. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56883-2_4
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