Guidance for hospitals: EMM incident classification
The development of standardised taxonomies to describe clinical incidents related to EMM systems continues to be a challenge in Australia and internationally with a multitude of classifications available for implementation.
Australia required a standardised health IT-related incident classification system that provides a unified and consensus-based approach that can be readily applied during the EMM implementation process.
In 2019, this led to the development of Guidance for hospitals: Classifying EMM-related adverse events and incidents (the Guidance) by the Commission.
The Guidance has been informed by a 2019 Update on approaches to the review and investigation of health IT-related patient safety incidents.
Hospitals will be able to use this information to guide EMM-related adverse event and incident investigation and prioritise health IT-related system improvement.
The Guidance comprises a fact sheet and a set of three (3) tools or classification schema.
Each tool has been devised, based on national and international approaches to the review and investigation of medicine as well as EMM/CIS-related adverse events and incidents.