Jessica Chen wins 2017 Branko Cesnik Award - Best Student Academic-Scientific Paper at HIC 2017
Jessica Chen wins 2017 Branko Cesnik Award – Best Student Academic/Scientific Paper at Australia's national Health Informatics Conference. Jessica’s paper ‘Downtime in digital hospitals: An analysis of patterns and causes over 33 months’ was the culmination of her internship with the Patient Safety team in the Centre for Health Informatics (CHI), Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University.
The paper examined the patterns and causes of IT system downtime in a hospital setting over the period 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. Read the full paper.
"I am thankful for the recognition and support for the work we do. I hope this small piece of the picture opens other's eyes to see the needs in patient safety and IT implementation." said Jessica.
"While digital health is going to help make healthcare safer and more effective, there are always going to be risks that need to be understood and managed”, said Professor Coiera, Director of CHI. “Jessica’s work is an important reminder that once we decide to rely on IT to deliver care in our health system, we need to make sure the IT is reliable - computer downtimes otherwise have the very real risk that they will disrupt patient care and create new problems.”
L to R: Angela Ryan, Co-Chair Academic/Scientific Program Australian Digital Health Agency and Jessica Chen
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Content owner: Australian Institute of Health Innovation Last updated: 19 Oct 2018 11:00am