Answer each these questions in a paragraph with at least five sentences: Include the question and number your responses accordingly. Provide a citation for each answer.
- Give an example from the book where insufficient testing was a factor in a program error or system failure.
- What was one cause in the delay in the completing of the Denver Airport.
- Why didn’t the healthcare.gov website work at first?
- What is one characteristic of high reliability organizations?
- Describe the potential risks of alert fatigue in EHR systems.
- What were 2 common factors in both the Therac-25 case and the space shuttle disaster.
- What does design for failure mean?
Required Readings
From A Gift of Fire by Sara Baase and Timothy M. Henry:
Chapter 8 – Errors, Failures, and Risk