Election incidents – where the elections system fails voters – are of increasing concern with the dramatic rise in the use of computerized electronic voting machines that store vote records in computer memory. The Election Protection Coalition (EPC) used a web-based election incident recording and reporting tool called the Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS) developed by the Verified Voti...

BACKGROUND Internationally, there is increasing recognition of the need to collect and analyse data on patient safety incidents, to facilitate learning and develop solutions. The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) for England and Wales has been capturing incident data from acute hospitals since November 2003. OBJECTIVES This study analyses patterns in reporting of patient safety incidents ...

The complexity of modern networked systems has negative consequences in the form of intended and unintended security incidents. Information security is not the first field to grapple with such challenges. In safety, incident learning systems (ILS) have been used to control high risk environments. Many of these systems, such as NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System, have demonstrated considera...

• Objective: To discuss key issues that emerged during the design and implementation of a Web-based incident reporting system. • Setting: 23 intensive care units in the United States. • Project description: The Web-based reporting form was developed and implemented as part of the Intensive Care Unit Safety Reporting System project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Unit s...