AHRQ Report Describes Software Being Developed to Identify Health IT Hazards

AHRQ Report Describes Software Being Developed to Identify Health IT Hazards

AHRQ has released a new report that describes the development and testing of the Health IT Hazard Manager, a software tool that will alert users to potential health IT-related patient safety events. The Hazard Manager tool will support a wide variety of health industry professionals by helping them: 

  

• Discover, identify, and communicate hazards caused by health IT applications
• Understand the causes of health IT hazards
• Identify the level of urgency needed to correct a hazard
• Learn the impact of health IT hazards, including how they could harm patients
• Outline the necessary steps to correct a hazard caused by health IT applications 

Although the Hazard Manager tool is not yet available, the report, titled AHRQ’s Health IT Hazard Manager Beta Test: Final Report, explains its testing period and describes the industry-wide feedback that is helping to shape the design of the tool.