Making healthcare safer by understanding, designing and buying better IT
Harold Thimbleby, Alexis Lewis and John Williams
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.15-3-258
Clin Med June 2015 Harold Thimbleby
ACollege of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
Roles: professor of computer science
Alexis Lewis
BCollege of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
Roles: PhD researcher
John Williams
CCollege of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
Roles: professor of health services research
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vol. 15 no. 3 258-262
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- Published online June 1, 2015.
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- Harold Thimbleby , professor of computer science A ⇑ ,
- Alexis Lewis , PhD researcher B and
- John Williams , professor of health services research C
- ACollege of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
- BCollege of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
- CCollege of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
- Address for correspondence: Prof H Thimbleby, College of Science, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK. Email: harold{at}thimbleby.net
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Making healthcare safer by understanding, designing and buying better IT
Harold Thimbleby, Alexis Lewis, John Williams
Clinical Medicine Jun 2015, 15 (3) 258-262; DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-3-258
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- A selection of illustrative problems
- Assuming the design is right
- Blaming the user
- Not exploring what happened
- Calculators have systematic but varied faults
- Ubiquitous design faults
- Calculation problems
- IT or embedded IT?
- From problems to solutions
- Reporting errors and near misses
- Making informed purchasing decisions
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