EBM emphasizes that delivery of health-care service and patient management should be based on the optimal use of available evidence about the patient and/or disease. In practice EBM implies the use of formal protocols, which facilitate, or direct, the health-care professional to gather, and often exhaustively, the evidence that is necessary given the clinical task at hand.
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Organizational Implementation of Healthcare Information Systems
G. Charissis (University of Crete, Greece), C. Melas (University Hospital of Crete, Greece), V. Moustakis (Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece), and L. Zampetakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Copyright: © 2010
|Pages: 32
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-670-4.ch020
Abstract
Health-care information systems (HCIS) intervene in medical reasoning and function. In a continuously changing environment health-care professionals find themselves overwhelmed with fast pacing advances both in information technology (IT) and in medical practice. Use of evidence-based medicine (EBM) is flourishing and the coupling between HCIS and EBM opens new frontiers for both. Yet the problems that relate to HCIS development and implementation remain the same. The problems of today have been problems of yesterday and are likely to stay, or evolve, in the future. The chapter takes the reader to a journey around the factors that are involved in HCIS development and implementation. Discussion is mostly non-technical and focuses on organization and individual readiness to adopt HCIS technology in the workplace. Discussion formalizes to a concrete framework, which is accompanied by a formal statistical methodology on how to apply the framework in practice. The proposed framework integrates existing formal models related to technology readiness and acceptance, EBM, organization climate and computer knowledge and skills.