| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 369 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in health technology and informatics,
1879-8365 ;
volume 222
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Studies in health technology and informatics ; v. 222.
0926-9630
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medical innovations.
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Medical innovations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ammenwerth, Elske, 1970- editor.
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Rigby, Michael, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Evidence-based health informatics. Amsterdam, Netherlands : IOS Press, [2016] (DLC) 2016939774 |
| ISBN |
9781614996354 (electronic book) |
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1614996350 (electronic book) |
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9781614996347 (hardcover) |
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1614996342 (hardcover) |
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