TY - GEN
T1 - Defining a framework for health information technology evaluation
AU - Eisenstein, Eric L.
AU - Juzwishin, Don
AU - Kushniruk, Andre W.
AU - Nahm, Meredith
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Governments and providers are investing in health information technologies with little evidence as to their ultimate value. We present a conceptual framework that can be used by hospitals, clinics, and health care systems to evaluate their health information technologies. The framework contains three dimensions that collectively define generic evaluation types. When these types are combined with contextual considerations, they define specific evaluation problems. The first dimension, domain, determines whether the evaluation will address the information intervention or its outcomes. The second dimension, mechanism, identifies the specific components of the new information technology and/or its health care system that will be the subject of the evaluation study. And, the third dimension, timing, determines whether the evaluation occurs before or after the health information technology is implemented. Answers to these questions define a set of evaluation types each with generic sets of evaluation questions, study designs, data collection requirements, and analytic methods. When these types are combined with details of the evaluation context, they define specific evaluation problems.
AB - Governments and providers are investing in health information technologies with little evidence as to their ultimate value. We present a conceptual framework that can be used by hospitals, clinics, and health care systems to evaluate their health information technologies. The framework contains three dimensions that collectively define generic evaluation types. When these types are combined with contextual considerations, they define specific evaluation problems. The first dimension, domain, determines whether the evaluation will address the information intervention or its outcomes. The second dimension, mechanism, identifies the specific components of the new information technology and/or its health care system that will be the subject of the evaluation study. And, the third dimension, timing, determines whether the evaluation occurs before or after the health information technology is implemented. Answers to these questions define a set of evaluation types each with generic sets of evaluation questions, study designs, data collection requirements, and analytic methods. When these types are combined with details of the evaluation context, they define specific evaluation problems.
KW - Evaluation framework
KW - Health information technology
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-60750-709-3-94
DO - 10.3233/978-1-60750-709-3-94
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 21335694
AN - SCOPUS:79953038053
SN - 9781607507086
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 94
EP - 99
BT - International Perspectives in Health Informatics
PB - IOS Press
ER -