introduction: patient safety improvement requires ongoing culture. this cultural change is the most important challenge that managers are faced with in creation of a safe system. this study aims to show the results of initiatives to improvement in patient safety culture in fateme al-zahra hospital. method: in the quasi-experimental research, patient safety culture was measured using the persian...

The infusion pump informatics (IPI) system represents an innovative collaboration among a community of practice and researchers at Purdue University; the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) and the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering (RCHE). This six-year-old decision support system was started to address needs for better management of smart infusion pumps. IPI supports a syste...

Safety and security are negative goals. Safety, security and usability (SSU) are system properties. They cannot be isolated to a component or some layer of the system. All three are prerequisites for system effectiveness. Ensuring SSU of an integrated system requires a holistic view; a myopic view will mislead. Consider the following illustration of a cybersecurity breach among high profile ind...

Software-based control of life-critical embedded systems has become increasingly complex, and to a large extent has come to determine the safety of the human being. For example, implantable cardiac pacemakers have over 80,000 lines of code which are responsible for maintaining the heart within safe operating limits. As firmware-related recalls accounted for over 41% of the 600,000 devices recal...

BACKGROUND Patient safety is one of the most important elements of quality of healthcare. It means preventing any harm to the patients during medical care process. OBJECTIVE This paper introduces a cost-effective tool in which the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is used to identify medical errors in hospital. METHODS The proposed clinical error management system (CEMS) is c...

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) regulates the supply of therapeutic goods in Australia – including medical devices. Many medical devices are not programmable, electronic, or even electrical. However more devices are becoming programmable, and existing medical device software is becoming more complex. Currently in Australia, certain types of medical devices are subjected to extensive ...