Mapping Health Outcome and Costs when Coordinating Local Information System Redesign

Area of Science:

• Health Informatics
• Techno-Anthropology
• Healthcare Management

Background:

• Rising healthcare costs necessitate cost-saving processes enabled by information systems.
• Implementing new healthcare systems requires addressing interoperability challenges with legacy systems.
• Ensuring active participation of healthcare professionals in designing new work processes is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

• To propose a method for user participation in designing healthcare work processes and systems.
• To integrate value-based healthcare principles into existing user-survey and strategy-mapping methods.
• To enhance health informatics research through interdisciplinary collaboration and ethical considerations.

Main Methods:

• Extending user-survey and strategy-mapping methods with a value-based healthcare approach.
• Involving health professionals in strategic assessments of health outcomes and costs.
• Applying Techno-Anthropology principles to foster ethical considerations and interdisciplinary research.

Main Results:

• A combined approach of practical research methods can facilitate user participation in system design.
• Value-based healthcare assessments provide a framework for health professionals' strategic input.
• This integrated methodology supports the cross-fertilization of competencies in health informatics.

Conclusions:

• Combining value-based healthcare with traditional methods offers a feasible approach to user participation.
• This strategy empowers healthcare professionals to actively shape new information systems and workflows.
• The proposed method aligns with Techno-Anthropology's focus on ethics and interdisciplinary collaboration in health informatics.