Evidence-based health informatics : promoting safety and efficiency through scientific methods and ethical policy / edited by Elske Ammenwerth and Michael Rigby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ammenwerth, E.

Contributor:

Ammenwerth, Elske, 1970- editor.

Rigby, Michael, editor.

Series:

Studies in health technology and informatics ; 0926-9630 v. 222.

Studies in health technology and informatics, 1879-8365 ; volume 222

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical innovations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 369 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Evidence-Based Health Informatics

Place of Publication:

IOS Press.

Amsterdam, Netherlands : IOS Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Health IT is a major field of investment in support of healthcare delivery, but patients and professionals tend to have systems imposed upon them by organizational policy or as a result of even higher policy decision. And, while many health IT systems are efficient and welcomed by their users, and are essential to modern healthcare, this is not the case for all. Unfortunately, some systems cause user frustration and result in inefficiency in use, and a few are known to have inconvenienced patients or even caused harm, including the occasional death. This book seeks to answer the need for better understanding of the importance of robust evidence to support health IT and to optimize investment in it; to give insight into health IT evidence and evaluation as its primary source; and to promote health informatics as an underpinning science demonstrating the same ethical rigour and proof of net benefit as is expected of other applied health technologies. The book is divided into three parts: the context and importance of evidence-based health informatics; methodological considerations of health IT evaluation as the source of evidence; and ensuring the relevance and application of evidence. A number of cross cutting themes emerge in each of these sections. This book seeks to inform the reader on the wide range of knowledge available, and the appropriateness of its use according to the circumstances. It is aimed at a wide readership and will be of interest to health policymakers, clinicians, health informaticians, the academic health informatics community, members of patient and policy organisations, and members of the vendor industry"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Part I: The context and importance of evidence-based health informatics. The need for evidence in health informatics

Evidence-based health informatics and the scientific development of the field

Health IT for patient safety and improving the safety of health IT

Part II: Methodological considerations of health IT evaluation. Theoretical basis of health IT evaluation

Understanding stakeholder interests and perspectives in evaluations of health IT

Domains of health IT and tailoring of evaluation: practicing process modeling for multi-stakeholder benefits

Evidence-based health informatics frameworks for applied use

Ensuring the quality of evidence: using the best design to answer health IT questions

Mixed methods: a paradigm for holistic evaluation of health IT

Evaluation of people, social, and organizational issues

sociotechnical ethnographic evaluation

From usability engineering to evidence-based usability in health IT

Participatory design, user involvement and health IT evaluation

Clinical simulation as an evaluation method in health informatics

Economic evaluation of health IT

Health care performance indicators for health information systems

Evaluating the impact of health IT on medication safety

Evaluation of implementation of health IT

Evolving health IT systems evaluation: the convergence of health informatics and HTA

Realizing the potential of patient engagement: designing IT to support health in everyday life

Ensuring evidence-based safe and effective mHealth applications

Systematic reviews and meta-analysis of health IT

Going beyond systematic reviews: realist and meta-narrative reviews

Part III: Ensuring the relevance and application of evidence. Quality of health IT evaluations

Publishing health IT evaluation studies

Finding, appraising and interpreting the evidence of health IT

Evaluation of health IT in low-income countries

Learning, training and teaching of health informatics and its evidence for informaticians and clinical practice

Forward outlook: the need for evidence and for action in health informatics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from resource home page (IOS Press, viewed January 26, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version: Evidence-based health informatics.

ISBN:

9781614996354

1614996350

OCLC:

950882136

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.