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Technology innovation exposes organisations, like the ones in the healthcare domain, to complex socio-technical hazards . Our studies address a number of aspects of dependability in healthcare settings. The learning outcomes of the review of these studies with respect to the identified emerging technological hazards , i.e. Boundary Hazards , Evolutionary Hazards and Performativity Hazards , are twofold. On the one hand, socio-technical failures affect healthcare settings, which provide rich environments and samples of emerging technological risk . On the other hand, the revision of case studies drawn from the healthcare domain allows us to assess how emerging technological hazards characterise such complex settings. Hence, the analysis of healthcare studies driven by the emerging technological hazards enhances our understanding about the risk of technology innovation .

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Anderson, S., Felici, M. (2012). Hardening Social Links. In: Emerging Technological Risk. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2143-5_5

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