Health information technology is a great tool which has helped increase quality of care and safety metrics in the health care industry. What needs to be understood is that health care information technology is not a single tool, but a broad category and there are new technologies which are being added to this grouping. With new innovations, come new forms of problems that need to be tackled as they arrive. Benefits of health IT include; clinical decision support, patient identification, information sharing, and system interoperability. These benefits allow for medical providers to receive recommendations and guidance for patient care, safe guards for identifying the patients, relaying important patient information between different organizations and within them as well, and for types of information to be used by different operating systems in the health care organizations. While these are incredible benefits to have, many times health information technology systems miss the mark on achieving these goals, and/or organizations do not use these safeguards as intended which cause patient safety issues Issues like these can arise from poorly made health information systems, poorly implemented or applied information systems, or even a combination of all. Unfortunately, health IT is a fallible concept and still requires a lot of oversight. Risks to patients and medical errors due to health information technology occurs because of bad software, user errors, nonintuitive operating system, and sometimes overly relying on health it products to detect fatal illnesses. This is not to say that health care information technology is a bad thing, but at times the systems implemented do not have the sufficient information to use the safeguards they were programmed to have