Table of Contents

Introduction.- Standards and Quality Management in Health IT.- The Nature of Risk and Safety.- Acceptability and Ownership of Risk.- The Safety Management System.- Undertaking a Clinical Risk Management Project.- The Scope of Clinical Risk Management.- The Hazardous Environment.- Failure of Health IT.- A Framework for Hazards in Health IT Systems.- Structuring the Hazard Register.- Populating the Hazard Register.- Estimating and Evaluating Clinical Risk.- Developing Control Strategies.- Software Testing in Clinical Risk Management.- Gathering Evidence for the Safety Case.- Developing the Safety Case.- Handling Faults in Live Service.- The Safety Case in Live Service.- Availability and Performance.- Evidencing Competency.- Language and Writing Style.

About the Author

Adrian Stavert-Dobson is a medical doctor, computer programmer and health informatician. He successfully developed his first eHealth solution aged just 18 and went on to study Medicine at the University of Leicester. His passion for technology took him from clinical practice in anesthetics to full-time Hhealth IT working with a number of innovative software suppliers in the UK and abroad.

A strong advocate for patient safety, Adrian has specialized in the management of clinical risk in Health IT systems. Working alongside professional safety engineers he has adapted techniques well-established in other safety critical industries to the healthcare domain.