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Diagnostic errors pose a significant threat to patient safety.1 Learning health systems (LHS) provide opportunities to investigate, monitor, and measure diagnostic errors in real time within a healthcare system. A multidisciplinary panel will discuss emerging priorities and research opportunities related to health information technology (HIT)-enabled measurement of diagnostic errors, now considered the next big patient safety challenge.2 This session will explore how to use multiple sources of data from the health system (electronic triggers), providers, and patients, to identify and analyze missed opportunities in diagnosis. These data can be used to understand how health systems can learn and enhance the safety and accuracy of the diagnostic process. The learning objectives of this panel include: 1) how HIT-enabled health care organizations can become LHS for improving diagnosis; and 2) how informaticists can help implement pragmatic approaches to measure and understand diagnostic errors and engage in development of institutional infrastructure and feedback processes to promote individual and organizational learning.

Learning Objective: The learning objectives of this panel include:
1) How HIT-enabled health care organizations can become LHS for improving diagnosis,
2) How informaticists can help implement HIT-based pragmatic approaches to measure and understand diagnostic errors and engage in development of institutional infrastructure and feedback processes to promote individual and organizational learning.

Authors:

Hardeep Singh (Presenter)
Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine

Ashley Meyer (Presenter)
Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine

Traber Giardina (Presenter)
Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine

Divvy Upadhyay (Presenter)
Geisinger

Dean Sittig (Presenter)
UT Memorial Health Care System

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