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Design and evaluation in eHealth: challenges and implications for an interdisciplinary field.
1Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. claudia.pagliari@ed.ac.uk
Journal of Medical Internet Research
|June 1, 2007
Summary
Interdisciplinary collaboration in electronic health (eHealth) design requires mutual respect for diverse methods and contexts. Enhanced awareness and joint efforts between software developers and health researchers can improve eHealth adoption and value.
Area of Science:
- Health Informatics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Health Services Research
Background:
- Insufficient user involvement and lack of impact evidence hinder eHealth application adoption.
- Differing perspectives among eHealth producers and evaluators (e.g., software developers, health researchers) create barriers.
- Siloed or parallel working models impede effective eHealth development and implementation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To reflect on the benefits and barriers of interdisciplinary collaboration in eHealth.
- To explore the relationship between software developers and health services researchers.
- To propose strategies for improving eHealth design and evaluation through collaboration.
Main Methods:
- Reflective analysis of interdisciplinary collaboration in eHealth.
- Comparison of methodologies, epistemologies, and contextual drivers of software developers and health services researchers.
- Identification of potential synergies and integrated approaches.
Main Results:
- Mutual awareness and respect for different disciplinary approaches can overcome working silos.
- Recognizing and harnessing synergies between software development and health research communities is beneficial.
- Integrated approaches leveraging unique disciplinary strengths can lead to user-informed, context-fit, high-quality eHealth technologies.
Conclusions:
- Interdisciplinary collaboration, though challenging, is crucial for realizing the potential of eHealth.
- Embracing new, collaborative ways of working is necessary to develop truly user-informed and valuable eHealth solutions.
- Policy implications exist for commissioning agencies to foster interdisciplinary research and development in eHealth.
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