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Evaluating large scale health information systems: from practice towards theory
H A Heathfield1, V Peel, P Hudson
1Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Summary
Evaluating large-scale health information systems presents challenges. Developing a robust evaluation framework is essential for planning, understanding results, and making predictions for these complex systems.
Area of Science:
- Health Informatics
- Information Systems Evaluation
Background:
- Large-scale health information systems are often incrementally developed from existing legacy systems.
- This incremental development introduces significant methodological and practical challenges for evaluators.
Purpose of the Study:
- To discuss the difficulties encountered in multidisciplinary, multi-method evaluations of health information systems.
- To propose the necessity of an evaluation framework for these systems.
Main Methods:
- Discussion of methodological and practical problems in evaluating complex health information systems.
- Exploration of multidisciplinary and multi-method evaluation approaches.
Main Results:
- Evaluations of incrementally developed health information systems face unique challenges.
- A structured evaluation framework is crucial for effective system assessment.
Conclusions:
- Developing a comprehensive evaluation framework is vital for successful planning, result interpretation, and future prediction in health information system evaluations.
- Suggestions for constructing such a framework are presented.