title: Root Cause Analysis and Health Informatics.
abstract: Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is the most widely used system analysis tool for investigating safety related incidents in healthcare. This contribution reviews RCA techniques, using a Health Informatics example, and discusses barriers to their successful uptake by healthcare organisations. It is concluded that a critical assessment to examine the uptake and evaluate the success of RCA, and other safety related techniques, within healthcare is long overdue.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of York, U.K.
authors.forename: Richard W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: Institute of Digital Healthcare WMG, University of Warwick, U.K.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Despotou
mesh_terms: D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019300:Medical Errors; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D061214:Patient Safety; D060891:Root Cause Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D013597:Systems Analysis