RT Book, Section A1 Frush, Karen S. A1 Krug, Steven E. SR Print(0) ID 1105561501 T1 The Importance of Information Technology in Pediatric Patient Safety T2 Pediatric Patient Safety and Quality Improvement YR 2015 FD 2015 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071827362 LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105561501 RD 2024/03/28 AB Information technology is currently evolving at a rapid pace and its application in healthcare is no exception. Health information technology (HIT) has the potential for revolutionizing patient safety and improving healthcare quality. A series of Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports helped catalyze the view that HIT has the potential for improving patient safety and quality. The 1999 IOM Report “To err is human: building a safer health system” brought to the forefront the problem of medical errors and proposed HIT as a solution for reducing those errors.1 This was further iterated by the IOM report “Crossing the quality chasm: a new health system for the 21st century” where one of the key recommendations was the application of health information technology to help redesign the healthcare system. It was recognized in this report that HIT had the potential for impacting all six aims of this report: safety, effectiveness, patient-centered, timely efficient, and equitable.2