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Top 10 Health Technology Hazards in 2023 to Watch

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – ECRI , the nation’s largest non-profit patient safety organization, names communications gaps with recalls of home-use medical devices as the nation’s most pressing health technology safety issue for 2023. Potential breaches of patients’ protected health information (PHI) are an additional concern.

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Newsletter, February 2024

Patient Safety Movement

This brings up the concept of wearable digital health technologies for monitoring. Approximately 25% of patients experience an adverse event in US hospitals, with over 40% caused by preventable errors. Some infections can be prevented through their respective vaccinations. Why is this so important?