Related Experiment Videos
Factors contributing to computer system downtime in the emergency department
Nathan Hoot1, James C Wright, Dominik Aronsky
1Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
AMIA ... Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium
|January 20, 2004
Abstract:
Little research has been conducted on the nature and impact of system downtime. Downtime may have a major impact both on patient care and on operating costs. We examined different system components that contributed to downtime of an emergency department information system and characterized the frequency and length of these downtimes during a period of four months.