Elizabeth Borycki
University of Victoria, Canada
Biography
Elizabeth Borycki is a Professor in the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria, Canada, and an internationally recognized leader in digital health and patient safety. She directs the Global Lab for Digital Health and AI Innovation, where she advances research on the safe design, implementation, and evaluation of health technologies. Her work focuses on preventing technology‑induced errors and improving care through evidence‑based informatics solutions. A Michael Smith Health Research BC Health Professional Investigator Award recipient, Borycki has authored numerous scholarly publications and contributes extensively to global standards, policy, and education in health informatics.
Research Interest
Digital health technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) have emerged as an important issue for patients, nurses and nursing informatics professionals to address. Research and media publicaitons identify real-world interactions with technologies can lead their human operators to make errors in decision-making (e.g. AI hallucinations may affect the quality of a patient decision making about their health and wellness). No where is this more important than in healthcare. However, few studies have examined how these technologies and their interactions with their human operators influence error rates.