scholarly journals A Tale of Two Inspection Methods: Comparing an eHealth Literacy and User Experience Checklist with Heuristic Evaluation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Monkman ◽  
Janessa Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Health Information System ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Consumer Health Information ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Consumer Health ◽  
Mobile Environment ◽  
Ehealth Literacy

Adhering to user experience (UX) and eHealth literacy principles when developing consumer health information systems (HISs) can not only improve a user’s experience but can also have implications on patient safety. Methods exist to explore these dimensions independently, but few methods are available for evaluating consumer (i.e., citizen) health information systems for their adherence to usability and eHealth literacy design principles simultaneously. In this paper, we compared two inspection (i.e., expert review) tools and identified the strengths and weaknesses of each. The findings from this comparison can assist researchers, consumer health information system developers, and evaluators choosing between the two alternatives. Moreover, our comparison revealed the shortcomings in both tools and the need for a novel, purpose-built tool that is more comprehensive than either of the existing tools that assess UX and eHealth literacy and more adequately address design guidelines for the mobile environment.

scholarly journals eHealth literacy issues, constructs, models, and methods for health information technology design and evaluation

2015 ◽  
pp. 541-549 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Consumer Health Information ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Consumer Health ◽  
Patient Portals ◽  
Ehealth Literacy ◽  
Concept Of Health ◽  
Health Applications

The concept of eHealth literacy is beginning to be recognized as a being of key importance in the design and adoption of effective and efficient health information systems and applications targeted to lay people and patients. Indeed, many systems such as patient portals and personal health records have not been adopted due to a mismatch between the level of eHealth literacy demanded by a system and the level of eHealth literacy possessed by end users. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of important concepts related to eHealth literacy, as well as how the notion of eHealth literacy can be applied to improve the design and adoption of consumer health information systems. This paper begins with describing the importance of eHealth literacy with respect to design of health applications for the general public paired with examples of consumer health information systems whose limited success and adoption has been attributed to the lack of consideration for eHealth literacy. This is followed by definitions of what eHealth literacy is and how it emerged from the related concept of health literacy. A model for conceptualizing the importance of aligning consumers’ eHealth literacy skills and the demands systems place on their skills is then described. Next, current tools for assessing consumers’ eHealth literacy levels are outlined, followed by an approach to systematically incorporating eHealth literacy in the deriving requirements for new systems is presented. Finally, a discussion of evolving approaches for incorporating eHealth literacy into usability engineering methods is presented.

Towards Multi-Agent Health Information Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Claudi ◽  
Paolo Sernani ◽  
Aldo Franco Dragoni
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Health Information System ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Radiology Workflow ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Multi Agent

One of the key challenges in the healthcare sector is to adapt Health Information Systems to requirements coming from changing societies. In recent years, governments and international healthcare organizations defined a series of requirements for new generation Health Information Systems: they have to preserve past investments on legacy systems, but must also integrate new technologies, include the patient among their users, and ensure that clinical information are available at all times, even in places far from where information are physically stored. This paper proposes a multi agent-oriented architecture for Health Information Systems, which uses international standards for communication and management of clinical documents. The architecture tries to effectively model a generic healthcare organization, and aims at being easily extensible and adaptable to the particularities of specific healthcare systems. The authors present two experimental scenarios to test the proposed multi-agent health information system. In the first, they show how to model a specific use case, a radiology workflow, using agents and well-known standards; in the second one the authors demonstrate how a mobile application can use the services provided by the agents to support the medical staff in an emergency situation.

scholarly journals Implementation of Toddler Health Information Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Teungku Nih Farisni ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Center ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Reporting System ◽  
Health Information System ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Integrated System

Health Information System is an integrated system that used to manage data and public information. Babahrot Health Center, has problems in the field of health information system and the health center of integrated recording and reporting system especially the system toddler health information

scholarly journals Health information systems´ usability-related use errors in patient safety incidents

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eija Hautamäki ◽  
Ulla-Mari Kinnunen ◽  
Sari Palojoki
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Information System ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Identification Problems ◽  
Hospital District ◽  
Information System Design ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Patient Safety Incidents

Health information systems contain usability issues that cause use errors, which may pose a risk to patient safety. The aim of this study was to identify what kind of usability issues in information systems cause use errors that lead to patient safety incidents. Patient safety incidents reported into an incident reporting system in a Finnish hospital district during the year 2014 (n=2500) were analyzed from the perspectives of usability and use errors. An inductive content analysis was carried out in order to gather information about the usability issues that may have led to a use error, thus causing patient safety incidents. The results showed that the main usability issues are the distribution of information into multiple views, identification problems with the selected patient, and basic daily tasks' reliance on users' memory. The results show that the relationship between usability, use errors, and patient safety should be understood and considered in the health information system design.

scholarly journals Towards an Integrative Cognitive-Socio-Technical Approach in Health Informatics: Analyzing Technology-Induced Error Involving Health Information Systems to Improve Patient Safety

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.M Borycki ◽  
A.W Kushniruk
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
System Development ◽  
Improve Patient Safety ◽  
Health Information System ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Information System Design ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this paper is to argue for an integration of cognitive and socio-technical approaches to assessing the impact of health information systems. Historically, health informatics research has examined the cognitive and socio-technical aspects of health information systems separately. In this paper we argue that evaluations of health information systems should consider aspects related to cognition as well as socio-technical aspects including impact on workflow (i.e. an integrated view). Using examples from the study of technology-induced error in healthcare, we argue for the use of simulations to evaluate the cognitive-socio-technical impacts of health information technology [36]. Implications of clinical simulations and analysis of cognitive-social-technical impacts are discussed within the context of the system development life cycle to improve health information system design, implementation and evaluation.

scholarly journals OpenMRS FRAMEWORK : HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM SOLUTION TO DEVELOP IN SABHA, LIBYA

Respati ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (27) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mostafa Abobaker ◽  
Selo Sulistyo ◽  
Adhistya Erna Permanasari
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Health Information System ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Care System ◽  
The Revolution

The health care system in Libya in recent years does not change significantly, less developed and modernized. This problem is further exacerbated by the revolution that occurred in Libya. The revolution that occurred in 2011 has caused the health care system into collapse. In this study conducted a review for the development of health information systems in Libya by using OpenMRS Framework.At the stage of gathering information using questionnaires concluded that the majority of respondents (about 95.35%) wanted the development of a new system that can resolve the main problems that occurred in Libya, the health information system ineffective and inefficient in which this system has led to wastage of time and increased operating costs. Based on analysis of system vulnerabilities using PIECES method could also be concluded that the current system is not used effectively and efficiently. In this study is also presented on how to implement OpenMRS.Based on the results of the discussion it can be concluded that OpenMRS is a solution that can be taken for the development of a health information system that is fast, low cost, and is an open source application that only requires a little setting in the system of patient management and care. OpenMRS can be implemented to support the health services of a small clinic to the health services with enterprise scale. Therefore, OpenMRS could be the answer to the development of health information systems in various countries around the world, including Libya.

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