Assignment: Errors Failures and Risks
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.
a. Give an example from the book where insufficient testing was a factor in a program error or system failure.
b. What was one cause in the delay in the completing of the Denver Airport.
c. Why didn't the healthcare.gov website work at first?
d. What is one characteristic of high reliability organizations?
e. Describe the potential risks of alert fatigue in EHR systems.
f. What were 2 common factors in both the Therac-25 case and the space shuttle disaster.
g. What does design for failure mean?
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Reference
From A Gift of Fire by Sara Baase and Timothy M. Henry:
Chapter 8 - Errors, Failures, and Risk.