Healthcare technologies, quality improvement programs and hospital organizational culture in Canadian hospitals

"The usage of quality improvement programs is related to the ability to implement technology and the culture within a hospital."

Healthcare technologies, quality improvement programs and hospital organizational culture in Canadian hospitals
RK Tyagi, L Cook, J Olson, J Belohlav
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:413

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ICTs and the health sector

"This book examines the whole new world of possibilities in using mobiles and the Internet to address healthcare challenges."

ICTs and the health sector: towards smarter health and wellness models
OECD
2013

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Advanced clinical decision support using lessons from outside of healthcare

"Greater use of computerized decision support (DS) systems could address continuing safety and quality problems in healthcare, but the healthcare field has struggled to implement DS technology."

Advanced clinical decision support using lessons from outside of healthcare: an interdisciplinary systematic review
HW Wu, PK Davis, DS Bell
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2012, 12:90

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Using electronic health records to improve quality and efficiency

"An examination of nine hospitals that recently implemented a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) system finds that clinical and administrative leaders built EHR adoption into their strategic plans to integrate inpatient and outpatient care and provide a continuum of coordinated services."

Using electronic health records to improve quality and efficiency: the experiences of leading hospitals
S Silow-Carroll, JN Edwards, D Rodin
The Commonwealth Fund
July 2012

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Health IT and patient safety

"Health IT is playing an ever-larger role in the care of patients, and some components of health IT have significantly improved the quality of health care and reduced medical errors."

Health IT and patient safety: building safer systems for better care
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
National Academies Press
February 2012

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