An Introduction to IEC 80001: Aiming for Patient Safety in the Networked Healthcare Environment

摘要

For some years, the automation of hospital administrative work flow has been seen as a means to reduce costs associated with delivering healthcare. The publication of the Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,1 which documented a high level of mistakes in patient clinical care, and the subsequent report, Crossing the Health Care Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century,2 added patient safety to the benefits to be gained with automation. Healthcare institutions and the industry that provides them with information technology (IT) products endorsed both reports and sought to rapidly implement solutions that would improve both the cost and the safety of healthcare.