All CLEAR? Preparing for IT downtime. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

All CLEAR? Preparing for IT downtime. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published August 2016

All CLEAR? Preparing for IT downtime.

Kashiwagi DT, Sexton MD, Souchet Graves CE, et al. Am J Med Qual. 2016 Aug 30; [Epub ahead of print].

Due to the increasing integration of health care processes with information technology,unavailability of these systems can affect patient safety. This commentary describes the development and testing of a toolkit designed to help prepare organizations for downtime to reduce risks that may occur during a system outage.

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