TY - JOUR T1 - Making healthcare safer by understanding, designing and buying better IT JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 258 LP - 262 DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-3-258 VL - 15 IS - 3 AU - Harold Thimbleby AU - Alexis Lewis AU - John Williams Y1 - 2015/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/3/258.abstract N2 - When nobody or nothing notices an error, it may turn into patient harm. We show that medical devices ignore many errors, and therefore do not adequately support patient safety. In addition to causing preventable patient harm, errors are often reported ignoring potential flaws in medical device design, and front line staff may therefore be inappropriately blamed. We present some suggestions to improve reporting and the procurement of hospital equipment. ER -