785 research outputs found
Exploring Strategies for Successful Implementation of Electronic Health Records
Adoption of electronic health records (EHR) systems in nonfederal acute care hospitals has increased, with adoption rates across the United States reaching as high as 94%. Of the 330 plus acute care hospital EHR implementations in Texas, only 31% have completed attestation to Stage 2 of the meaningful use (MU) criteria. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies that hospital chief information officers (CIOs) used for the successful implementation of EHR. The target population consists of 3 hospitals CIOs from a multi-county region in North Central Texas who successfully implemented EHRs meeting Stage 2 MU criteria. The conceptual framework, for this research, was the technology acceptance model theory. The data were collected through semistructured interviews, member checking, review of the literature on the topic, and publicly available documents on the respective hospital websites. Using methodological triangulation of the data, 4 themes emerged from data analysis: EHR implementation strategies, overcoming resistance to technology acceptance, strategic alignment, and patient wellbeing. Participants identified implementation teams and informatics teams as a primary strategy for obtaining user engagement, ownership, and establishing a culture of acceptance to the technological changes. The application of the findings may contribute to social change by identifying the strategies hospital CIOs used for successful implementation of EHRs. Successful EHR implementation might provide positive social change by improving the quality of patient care, patient safety, security of personal health information, lowering health care cost, and improvements in the overall health of the general population
The Advent of Digital Productivity Assistants: The Case of Microsoft MyAnalytics
Modern digital work environments allow for great flexibility, but can also contribute to a blurring of work/life boundaries and technostress. An emerging class of intelligent tools, that we term Digital Productivity Assistant (DPA), helps knowledge workers to improve their productivity by creating awareness of their collaboration behaviour and by suggesting improvements. In this revelatory case study, we combine auto-ethnographic insights with interview data from three organisations to explore how one such tool works to influence collaboration and productivity management behaviours, using the lens of persuasive IS design. We also identify barriers to DPAsâ effective use as a partner in personal productivity management
Telehealth Case Management Nursing Process and Technology Enhancements: Reflecting Practice and Outcomes
Accurate reflection of care practices in telehealth care management is the fore runner to the delivery of reportable beneficiary outcomes. Success in delivering Geriatric Care Services (GCS) resides in a partnership between clinician practice and technology tools utilized in telehealth practice. Through in home technologies, telehealth can provide ongoing care needs to underserved populations, and it can support independent aging of beneficiaries who live with chronic care conditions. Tele-health care management, performed through a health plan, presents a unique opportunity to capitalize on the abundance of health data collected on a patient, and maximize the use of that information for clinical decision support. Nursing informatics is the facilitator of telenursing. It is the specialty that integrates and applies nursing science, and respective theoretical models, in identifying, collecting, processing, and managing data. It furthers seeks to process that data to formulate knowledge based decisions and informed care plan actions. Maximizing technology and available data are primary tools a telehealth clinician uses in care management practice. It is imperative that the technology system utilized in practice supports the telehealth interaction by accurately and effectively reflecting the clinicianâs practice through data inputs, collection methods, and interpretation logic. This Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) systems change project examined existing telehealth care practice and available technology tools. The project explored options for practice and process improvements in identification and formulation of cases and the development of new clinical technology tools to support the practice. Further, this project implemented practice change to support the organizationâs strategic plan to provide efficient and effective GCS case management to our client. In summary, this project produced new clinical technology tools to reflect telehealth practice, gave a voice to telehealth case managers in the technology development cycle, and established a measurement framework for organizational reporting on case management outcomes
A model on factors affecting nurses adoption of health information technology
Healthcare organisations are using Health Information Technology (HIT) to
improve efficiency, reduce cost and reduce medical errors. This study focused on
the factors that influence the acceptance of HIT among nurses in Saudi hospitals.
This research used a 6 stage mixed-methods research approach. Literature was
used to search for established models and frameworks of technology
acceptance, and the many factors that could play a role. In the field study, the
nature of practical HIT issues at the Prince Sultan Military Medical City (PSMMC)
and the Heraa Hospital were studied, and combined with literature to create a
HIT Implementation Issues Framework. The framework consolidates elements
from the Technological, Organisational, Environmental and Human dimensions.
The researcher participated in further PSMMC projects in the design and
implementation of the new Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation System and the
Nurses and Pharmacistsâ Communication System. From the implementation
experience, pertinent factors were added to the Technology Acceptance Model
and the âNurses Acceptance Modelâ was proposed. The proposed model has
eleven independent parameters, two dependent parameters, as well as seven
moderators of key relationships. A questionnaire with 71 entries was distributed
to over 2800 nurses in 52 wards in PSMMC. SPSS was used for data screening
and descriptive statistics. The SmartPLS software was used for analysis and
testing of the proposed hypotheses. The findings refined the âNurses Acceptance
Modelâ and highlight the significance of User Involvement and Training.
The âNurses Acceptance Modelâ enhances the scientific understanding of
variables that affect technology acceptance among nurses in Saudi hospitals.
The HIT Implementation Issues Framework helps hospital decision makers to
plan HIT projects to improve the likelihood of successful adoption
The adoption of healthcare information systems within public hospitals in Kurdistan region of Iraq
In Iraq, government reports stated that the âadoption of Healthcare Information Systems ââ(HIS) is still low and below the aspirations of the âgovernment despite the investments in the system âdevelopment. For this reason, there was a need to âexplore and investigate the actual issues that âinfluence the adoption of HIS, and to examine the âeffect of different dimensions (i.e. the individual, âtechnological, organizational and environmental) âon the adoption of HIS in Iraq. The main objective of the study is to explore the âfactors that affect the adoption of HIS among âhealthcare practitioners within Kurdistan Region âof Iraq (KRI) public hospitals. Furthermore, âanother goal was to examine the influence of âdifferent dimensions on the healthcare âpractitionersâ adoption behavior in order to âproduce the essential knowledge regarding HIS âadoption. The study used a mixed method approach. The âdata collection started with a qualitative study âusing semi-structured interviews with eight âhealthcare professionals and then followed by a âquantitative study that was conducted among 551 ârespondents using self-administered âquestionnaires. The qualitative study resulted in 26 themes that âwere elicited from the interviews. Moreover, the âfindings of the quantitative study indicated that âthe adoption of HIS was significantly influenced âby different individual, technological, âorganizational and the environmental dimensions âcollectively. The study revealed the actual issues (i.e. the âindividual, technological, organizational and âenvironmental) facing the adoption of HIS within âthe studyâs new context through the qualitative âinvestigation. Moreover, a comprehensive and âholistic model based on the Unified Theory of âAcceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) âwas presented. The study presented the essential âknowledge and information to the literature, âhealthcare practitioners and researchers in Iraq âregarding the issue of HIS adoptio
The Successful Implementation of Electronic Health Records at Small Rural Hospitals
Electronic health records (EHRs) have been in use since the 1960s. U.S. rural hospital leaders and administrators face significant pressure to implement health information technology because of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. However, some leaders and managers of small rural hospital lack strategies to develop and implement EHRs. The focus of this descriptive phenomenological study was to explore lived experiences of hospital leaders and administrators who have used successful strategies to implement EHRs in small rural hospitals. Diffusion of innovation theory shaped the theoretical framework of this study. Data were collected through telephone interviews conducted with participants who successfully deployed EHRs at 10 hospitals in the Appalachian regions of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Data analysis occurred using a modified Husserlian approach in search of common themes from interview transcripts. The main themes were strategies to address standards and incentives, implementation, and challenges. The exploration of these strategies provides insight that small rural hospital leaders and administrators could consider for implementing EHRs. The study findings might enable small rural hospital leaders and administrators to contribute to positive social change by engaging communities in using EHRs; these findings may also expand information sharing among individuals and organizations and build social relationships with an expectation of future benefits. Results from this study are designed to inform other small rural hospital leaders and administrators to conduct further research on successful strategies for implementation of EHRs
The Information Systems Academic Discipline in Australia
This book represents the second phase of a multi-method, multi-study of the âInformation Systems Academic Discipline in Australiaâ. Drawing on Whitleyâs Theory of Scientific Change, the study analysed the degree of âprofessionalisationâ of the Information Systems Discipline, the overarching research question being âTo what extent is Information Systems a distinct and mature discipline in Australia?â The book chapters are structured around three main sections: a) the context of the study; b) the state case studies; and c) Australia-wide evidence and analysis. The book is crafted to be accessible to IS and non-IS types both within and outside of Australia. It represents a âcheck pointâ; a snapshot at a point in time. As the first in a hoped for series of such snap-shots, it includes a brief history of IS in Australia, bringing us up to the time of this report.
The editorial team comprises Guy Gable, architect and leader; Bob Smyth, project manager; Shirley Gregor, sponsor, host and co-theoretician; Roger Clarke, discipline memory; and Gail Ridley, theoretician. In phase two, the editors undertook to examine each component study, with a view to arriving at an Australia-wide perspective
Data security in European healthcare information systems
This thesis considers the current requirements for data security in European healthcare systems and
establishments. Information technology is being increasingly used in all areas of healthcare
operation, from administration to direct care delivery, with a resulting dependence upon it by
healthcare staff. Systems routinely store and communicate a wide variety of potentially sensitive
data, much of which may also be critical to patient safety. There is consequently a significant
requirement for protection in many cases.
The thesis presents an assessment of healthcare security requirements at the European level, with a
critical examination of how the issue has been addressed to date in operational systems. It is
recognised that many systems were originally implemented without security needs being properly
addressed, with a consequence that protection is often weak and inconsistent between establishments.
The overall aim of the research has been to determine appropriate means by which security may be
added or enhanced in these cases.
The realisation of this objective has included the development of a common baseline standard for
security in healthcare systems and environments. The underlying guidelines in this approach cover
all of the principal protection issues, from physical and environmental measures to logical system
access controls. Further to this, the work has encompassed the development of a new protection
methodology by which establishments may determine their additional security requirements (by
classifying aspects of their systems, environments and data). Both the guidelines and the
methodology represent work submitted to the Commission of European Communities SEISMED
(Secure Environment for Information Systems in MEDicine) project, with which the research
programme was closely linked.
The thesis also establishes that healthcare systems can present significant targets for both internal
and external abuse, highlighting a requirement for improved logical controls. However, it is also
shown that the issues of easy integration and convenience are of paramount importance if security is
to be accepted and viable in practice. Unfortunately, many traditional methods do not offer these
advantages, necessitating the need for a different approach.
To this end, the conceptual design for a new intrusion monitoring system was developed, combining
the key aspects of authentication and auditing into an advanced framework for real-time user
supervision. A principal feature of the approach is the use of behaviour profiles, against which user
activities may be continuously compared to determine potential system intrusions and anomalous
events.
The effectiveness of real-time monitoring was evaluated in an experimental study of keystroke
analysis -a behavioural biometric technique that allows an assessment of user identity from their
typing style. This technique was found to have significant potential for discriminating between
impostors and legitimate users and was subsequently incorporated into a fully functional security
system, which demonstrated further aspects of the conceptual design and showed how transparent
supervision could be realised in practice.
The thesis also examines how the intrusion monitoring concept may be integrated into a wider
security architecture, allowing more comprehensive protection within both the local healthcare
establishment and between remote domains.Commission of European Communities
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Be patient:A longitudinal study on adoption and diffusion of information technology innovation in Dutch healthcare
Three factors played an important role in the IT innovation alignment for the VBVS: economy, policy and technology. IT management played a crucial role in the alignment process of these factors. However, IT management still has an internal focus when it comes to IT innovations. At best, healthcare professionals are treated as customers, instead of the patients. When IT management realizes that the actual adoption and diffusion of IT innovations in healthcare is an expression of the intangible benefit it brings the patients... ... IT management can consider stimulating the adoption and diffusion of IT innovations by aligning the decision making process around the patientsâ needs, and literally âbe patient.â
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