Patient safety issues are increasing as practice of medicine gets more complex and expansive, and deserves utmost attention in controlling this exponentially growing challenge.

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Patient Safety and eHealth in the rescue: A revolution unfolding
Dr. Mohammad Yeakub, eHealth Solutions
Introduction
Patient safety issues are ubiquitous and have been widely published in current medical literature.
We reviewed the literature to find evidence of success in alleviating patient safety issues,
especially via the use of information technology, and to find directions for the future.
Aims and objectives
This review very broadly describes what has been achieved by adoption of eHealth systems, and
what needs to be done for Patient Safety in the eHealth journey.
Methodology
We conducted literature review and added our experiences to assess the situation and explore
the potential for alleviation of Patient Safety issues adopting eHealth. Institute of Medicine USA
have been coming forward with landmark publications, namely;
 Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care (2011)
 Patient Safety: Achieving A New Standard for Care ( 2003)
Researchers from England Aziz Sheikh et al, have published ‘The Impact of eHealth on the Quality
and Safety of Healthcare. An updated systematic overview & synthesis of the literature. Final
report for the NHS Connecting for Health Evaluation Programme (NHS CFHEP 001)’, in March
2011. In 2018, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality of Health care has published “ Impact
of Digital Health on the Safety and Quality of Health Care”, that provides more recent evidence
of successes.
Results:
Variations among implemented eHealth interventions limits comparison of data and
generalizability. Setting specific interventions need to be designed with current knowledge and
needs to be re-engineered as progress is made, keeping in mind the complex an interdependent
nature of healthcare interventions and outcomes. Overall, introducing digital health initiatives
into healthcare organizations can produce significant benefits to patients and healthcare
providers in the patient safety realm.
Conclusion
Patient safety issues are increasing as practice of medicine gets more complex and expansive,
and deserves utmost attention in controlling this exponentially growing challenge.
Implementation of patient safety interventions need to be multi-modal and success depends on
ensuring evidence-based rigorous implementation process with continuous data based

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monitoring, people’s active participation and embracing technological advancement while being
vigilant about the faulty designs in organizational infrastructure and culture, and IT systems
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