Table 2
Organizational Strategies Necessary to EHR Safety
| Care-process transformation (thoroughgoing redesign of health care processes to achieve significant improvements in clinical outcomes, service levels, and costs) |
| Patient safety (consistent, organization-wide efforts to improve care quality and patient outcomes) |
| Human-factors engineering (fitting technologies to organizational, team, and individual needs) |
| Software safety (the application of systems engineering methods to reducing the risks associated with software design and use) |
| Project management (the application of explicit management practices to a project to maximize benefits and minimize costs, including risks) |
| Continuous improvement (unceasing, systematic efforts to improve processes and outcomes) |
