Doctoral Consortium - Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) 2015

The utility and scope of medical imaging has expanded over the last 20 years and is now a critical part of medical practice. At the same time, Health Information Technology (HIT) has emerged as an indispensable tool for medical imaging that has been deployed widely. The benefits of HIT include collaborative and differential diagnosis; weighing and accuracy of diagnosis; and facilitation of diagnostic feedback and workflows. Although HIT has the potential to provide advantages for healthcare delivery and patient outcomes, it can pose substantial risks to patient safety if poorly designed, implemented or managed. Such risks may not only be harmful, but difficult to detect. Healthcare organizations in Australia are experiencing the same types of incidents reported elsewhere and being increasingly recognized.