This article discusses the risk assessment of a health information system. A case study was conducted at the South Western Sydney Area Health Service to examine the potential risks of the Maternal and Infant Network (MINET) health information system using Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA). FMEA was conducted by utilising safety attributes identified by the authors. Potential failure modes of ...

To the Editor: Crone et al. (1 ) present a case study with much of their discussion about aspects of reporting suspected medical errors, particularly when there is a possibility of misconduct or violation of rules. Marx (2 ), who described a useful taxonomy of medical errors, recommends that no blame be given except for certain situations, one of which can be summarized as “failure to report sa...

Despite multiple efforts to improve safety in construction, insufficient hazard identification remains a significant concern. Failure address these hazards can lead severe incidents that harm workers and firm’s reputation. This problem is especially prevalent construction small medium enterprises (SMEs) due their limited resources, reliance on manual labor, lack of technical expertise regarding...

Implementing information technology projects requires a calculated process to prevent failure. At the same time application of information technology in organizations faces various potential risks. Exploring information technology environment in organizations reveals the potential risks and provides a structure for comprehensive risk management. There are various methods available for risk mana...

Implementing information technology projects requires a calculated process to prevent failure. At the same time application of information technology in organizations faces various potential risks. Exploring information technology environment in organizations reveals the potential risks and provides a structure for comprehensive risk management. There are various methods available for risk mana...

In industry, the failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) methodology is one of main tools used for reliability management in product design development. However, academic literature highlights several shortcomings FMEA methodology. Therefore, purposes this paper are weaknesses FMEA, improvement method, implementation a new able to support quality more efficient way. Motivated by these objective...

anaging risk is not optional for organizations. Clause 0.1 of ISO 9004 mentions risk management in the same breath with cost and benefit considerations as being important to an organization, its customers and interested parties. Clause 5.4.2 also includes risk assessment and mitigation data as necessary inputs for efficient and effective quality planning. Some sectors, particularly aerospace an...

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is one of the risk analysis techniques often used in many industries to recognize, assess, avoid potential failures. FMEA consists occurrence (O), severity (S) detectability (D) failures by multiplying these components, priority number (RPN) obtained. The RPN value an indicator prioritizing Although analytical technique with strengths, such as helping id...

BACKGROUND Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a prospective risk assessment tool that has been widely used within the aerospace and automotive industries and has been utilised within healthcare since the early 1990s. The aim of this study was to explore the validity of FMEA outputs within a hospital setting in the United Kingdom. METHODS Two multidisciplinary teams each conducted an ...

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a systematic method for procedure analyses and risk assessment. It is a structured way to identify potential failure modes of a product or process, probability of their occurrence, and their overall effects. The basic purpose of this analysis is to mitigate the risk and the impact associated to a failure by planning and prioritizing actions to make a ...