@inproceedings{009e0ac7d6574e8bbfc19b5ef77b616c,
title = "Downtime in digital hospitals: an analysis of patterns and causes over 33 months",
abstract = "The use of health information technology (IT) is increasing around the world. However, as complex IT systems are implemented, new types of errors are introduced. These can disrupt workflow and care delivery, and even lead to patient harm. The purpose of this paper is to examine the patterns and causes of IT system downtime in a hospital setting. We examined all the downtime events that were recorded by a hospital IT department from February 2010 to October 2012. On average downtime disrupted care delivery for 49 hours per year with 51% of total downtime between 9 am and 5 pm. These results show that there is a need for safer design and implementation of IT systems. Further studies are required to measure the effects of downtime on care delivery and patient outcomes in digital hospitals.",
keywords = "Downtime, Health information technology, Outage, Patient safety",
author = "Jessica Chen and Ying Wang and Farah Magrabi",
note = "Copyright the Author(s) and IOS Press 2017. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.; 25th Australian National Health Informatics Conference, HIC 2017 ; Conference date: 06-08-2017 Through 09-08-2017",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.3233/978-1-61499-783-2-14",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781614997825",
volume = "239",
series = "Studies in Health Technology and Informatics",
publisher = "IOS Press",
pages = "14--20",
editor = "Angela Ryan and Schaper, {Louise K.} and Sue Whetton",
booktitle = "Integrating and connecting care",
address = "Netherlands",
}