Preserving Patient Safety with Healthcare IT/Part 3 - Preventing the IT Snowball Effect with Insufficient AI Governance
Patient safety is the core promise every healthcare organization makes to its community. In a world of EHR modernization, cloud migrations, and aggressive AI adoption, that promise now depends as much on healthcare IT and governance as it does on bedside care. As AI-driven tools move from pilots to production—supporting triage, diagnostics, documentation, and operational decisions—the uncomfortable truth is that governance has not kept pace with innovation. That gap is now a direct patient safety risk, not just a technology risk.
Preserving Patient Safety with Healthcare IT/ Part 1- Preventing Medical Gaslighting & Diagnostic Errors
Based on the Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) 2025 Patient Safety Report, the top five patient concerns in healthcare are medical gaslighting, diagnostic errors, insufficient AI-governance, medical misinformation, and cybersecurity and data privacy concerns. Since patient safety is such a mission-critical topic for our clients, we are going to do a multi-blog series addressing the safety challenges in healthcare and their IT solutions, entitled “Preserving Patient Safety with Healthcare IT.” Medical gaslighting and diagnostic errors will be covered in Part 1 of the series.