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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2013

The hazard of software updates to clinical workstations: a natural experiment.

Adam B Landman, Sukhjit S Takhar, Samuel L Wang, Anabela Cardoso, Joshua M Kosowsky, Ali S Raja, Ramin Khorasani, Eric G Poon

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Using statistical anomaly detection models to find clinical decision support malfunctions.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2018
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  6. Analysis of clinical decision support system malfunctions: a case series and survey.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Adam B LandmanDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. alandman@partners.org
Sukhjit S Takhar
Samuel L Wang
Anabela Cardoso
Joshua M Kosowsky
Ali S Raja
Ramin Khorasani
Eric G Poon

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emergency department (ED) electronic tracking boards provide a snapshot view of patient status and a quick link to other clinical applications, such as a web-based image viewer client to view current and previous radiology images from the picture archiving and communication systems (PACS). We describe a case where an update to Microsoft Internet Explorer severed the link between the ED tracking board and web-based image viewer. The loss of this link resulted in decreased web-based image viewer access rates for ED patients during the 10 days of the incident (2.8 views/study) compared with image review rates for a similar 10-day period preceding this event (3.8 views/study, p<0.001). Single-click user interfaces that transfer user and patient contexts are efficient mechanisms to link disparate clinical systems. Maintaining hazard analyses and rigorously testing all software updates to clinical workstations, including seemingly minor web-browser updates, are important to minimize the risk of unintended consequences.

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SoftwareUser-Computer InterfaceElectronic Health RecordsEmergency Service, HospitalHumansOrganizational Case StudiesSearch Engineemergency care information systemsinformation systemsPACSradiology information systemsuser-computer interface

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PMID23492594
PMCPMC3715366

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