# Designing IT to make Healthcare Safer

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Harold Thimbleby
- Year: 2014
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, History
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/designing-it-make-healthcare-safer)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

If preventable error in hospitals was a disease, it would be our sixth biggest killer, ahead of diabetes and ahead of road accidents. We have had so many problems with IT systems in hospitals that some have argued that healthcare has become an IT problem, and certainly it is one of the key barriers to improving healthcare.

## Lectures

1. [Designing IT to make Healthcare Safer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/designing-it-make-healthcare-safer/2e1b809a0c9e) (YouTube)