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IT Risk is Patient Risk

We've spent some time refining our vision and messaging at Anchor Infrastructure. It's straight-forward, simple, and should land close to home for a lot of folks: IT Risk is Patient Risk


A 2019 study published in The Lancet Digital Health Journal (cited below) analyzed 2,627 patient safety incidents tied to Health IT failures and the findings are... alarming.


โ€ข Nearly 20% of these failures caused ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—บ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€.ย 

โ€ข ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿฑ% of these incidents were classed as ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ.


The data is a stark reminder that investing in robust Health IT ๐˜€๐˜†๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—บ๐˜€, the ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ that manage them, and the ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด to do so, ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น - ๐—ถ๐˜'๐˜€ ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น.



At Anchor Infrastructure we're committed to supporting healthcare organizations in mitigating IT risk through reliable infrastructure, efficient systems, and strong process. Reach out and let's get started.




The Lancet Digital Health,

Volume 1, Issue 3,

2019,

Pages e127-e135,


Graphic detailing the relationship between HealthIT outages and patient harm.

ISSN 2589-7500,

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