title: Forming a health care incident reporting scheme.
abstract: In this paper the initial design steps of an Incident Reporting Scheme for Health Care are presented. The results of a short survey for the determination of Health Care user needs and expectations from such a scheme are given. The paper outlines a concise description of the proposed system and presents the conceptual model of the IRS database, and the developed prototype version of this database. Finally, future steps and security issues are described.
authors.affiliation: University of the Aegean, Dept. of Mathematics, Karlovassi, Greece.
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Mavroudakis
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Katsikas
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Gritzalis
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D003199:Computer Systems; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D012308:Risk Management; D012985:Software Design