School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, United Kingdom.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 Jun 6;290:364-368. doi: 10.3233/SHTI220097.
The fourth industrial revolution is based on cyber-physical systems and the connectivity of devices. It is currently unclear what the consequences are for patient safety as existing digital health technologies become ubiquitous with increasing pace and interact in unforeseen ways. In this paper, we describe the output from a workshop focused on identifying the patient safety challenges associated with emerging digital health technologies. We discuss six challenges identified in the workshop and present recommendations to address the patient safety concerns posed by them. A key implication of considering the challenges and opportunities for Patient Safety Informatics is the interdisciplinary contribution required to study digital health technologies within their embedded context. The principles underlying our recommendations are those of proactive and systems approaches that relate the social, technical and regulatory facets underpinning patient safety informatics theory and practice.
第四次工业革命以网络物理系统和设备的互联为基础。目前尚不清楚随着现有数字健康技术以越来越快的速度普及并以意想不到的方式相互作用，会对患者安全产生什么影响。在本文中，我们描述了一个专注于确定与新兴数字健康技术相关的患者安全挑战的研讨会的成果。我们讨论了研讨会中确定的六个挑战，并提出了应对这些挑战所带来的患者安全问题的建议。考虑患者安全信息学的挑战和机遇的一个重要含义是，需要跨学科的贡献来研究数字健康技术在其嵌入环境中的应用。我们建议的原则是主动和系统的方法，将支撑患者安全信息学理论和实践的社会、技术和监管方面联系起来。
