Why digital health fails silently: a sociotechnical theory of health information technology–related risk
Md Shafiqur Rahman Jabin · 2026
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Description
Md Shafiqur Rahman Jabin, writing alone in 2026, builds a theory of why health software fails quietly. His article argues that digital risks in care rarely come from one broken part or one careless user. They grow from tangled interactions among software, clinical routines, organizational structures, and governance, which older safety models, built on single errors and straight-line causes, cannot see.
Drawing on incident research and safety science, the theory names four linked mechanisms: risks emerge, hide, propagate, and meet recovery or fail to. Concealment is the signature move: systems keep working on the surface while hazards pool underneath. The framework synthesizes real incident narratives into testable propositions. Jabin offers it to designers and safety teams who need language for slow, silent digital harm.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Md Shafiqur Rahman Jabin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 51 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |