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Health IT Safety Center Roadmap.

RTI International. Washington, DC: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; July 2015.

The Institute of Medicine called for enhanced transparency in the reporting of health IT safety incidents to inform implementation and use of such technologies. This report reviews insights from a multidisciplinary task force that discussed how to design an entity focused on improving health IT–related safety that enables collaboration and learning.

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