scholarly journals A Systematic Review of Design Workshops for Health Information Technologies

Informatics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Mustafa Ozkaynak ◽  
Christina M. Sircar ◽  
Olivia Frye ◽  
Rupa S. Valdez

Background: Design workshops offer effective methods in eliciting end-user participation from design inception to completion. Workshops unite stakeholders in the utilization of participatory methods, coalescing in the best possible creative solutions. Objective: This systematic review aimed to identify design approaches whilst providing guidance to health information technology designers/researchers in devising and organizing workshops. Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted in five medical/library databases identifying 568 articles. The initial duplication removal resulted in 562 articles. A criteria-based screening of the title field, abstracts, and pre-full-texts reviews resulted in 72 records for full-text review. The final review resulted in 10 article exclusions. Results: 62 publications were included in the review. These studies focused on consumer facing and clinical health information technologies. The studied technologies involved both clinician and patients and encompassed an array of health conditions. Diverse workshop activities and deliverables were reported. Only seven publications reported workshop evaluation data. Discussion: This systematic review focused on workshops as a design and research activity in the health informatics domain. Our review revealed three themes: (1) There are a variety of ways of conducting design workshops; (2) Workshops are effective design and research approaches; (3) Various levels of workshop details were reported.

10.19082/2713 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 2713-2718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Garavand ◽  
Mohammah Mohseni ◽  
Heshmatollah Asadi ◽  
Manal Etemadi ◽  
Mohammad Moradi-Joo ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 142 ◽  
pp. 104247
Author(s):  
Matthew T. Neame ◽  
Gerri Sefton ◽  
Matthew Roberts ◽  
David Harkness ◽  
Ian P. Sinha ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1109-1119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Vedel ◽  
Saeed Akhlaghpour ◽  
Isaac Vaghefi ◽  
Howard Bergman ◽  
Liette Lapointe

10.2196/19515 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. e19515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Ye ◽  
Jin Zhou ◽  
Hong Wu

Background The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic poses an enormous challenge to the global health system, and governments have taken active preventive and control measures. The health informatics community in China has actively taken action to leverage health information technologies for epidemic monitoring, detection, early warning, prevention and control, and other tasks. Objective The aim of this study was to develop a technical framework to respond to the COVID-19 epidemic from a health informatics perspective. Methods In this study, we collected health information technology–related information to understand the actions taken by the health informatics community in China during the COVID-19 outbreak and developed a health information technology framework for epidemic response based on health information technology–related measures and methods. Results Based on the framework, we review specific health information technology practices for managing the outbreak in China, describe the highlights of their application in detail, and discuss critical issues to consider when using health information technology. Technologies employed include mobile and web-based services such as Internet hospitals and Wechat, big data analyses (including digital contact tracing through QR codes or epidemic prediction), cloud computing, Internet of things, Artificial Intelligence (including the use of drones, robots, and intelligent diagnoses), 5G telemedicine, and clinical information systems to facilitate clinical management for COVID-19. Conclusions Practical experience in China shows that health information technologies play a pivotal role in responding to the COVID-19 epidemic.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Ye ◽  
Jin Zhou ◽  
Hong Wu

BACKGROUND The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic poses an enormous challenge to the global health system, and governments have taken active preventive and control measures. The health informatics community in China has actively taken action to leverage health information technologies for epidemic monitoring, detection, early warning, prevention and control, and other tasks. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to develop a technical framework to respond to the COVID-19 epidemic from a health informatics perspective. METHODS In this study, we collected health information technology–related information to understand the actions taken by the health informatics community in China during the COVID-19 outbreak and developed a health information technology framework for epidemic response based on health information technology–related measures and methods. RESULTS Based on the framework, we review specific health information technology practices for managing the outbreak in China, describe the highlights of their application in detail, and discuss critical issues to consider when using health information technology. Technologies employed include mobile and web-based services such as Internet hospitals and Wechat, big data analyses (including digital contact tracing through QR codes or epidemic prediction), cloud computing, Internet of things, Artificial Intelligence (including the use of drones, robots, and intelligent diagnoses), 5G telemedicine, and clinical information systems to facilitate clinical management for COVID-19. CONCLUSIONS Practical experience in China shows that health information technologies play a pivotal role in responding to the COVID-19 epidemic.


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