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On Flexibility in Evaluation Design
Been doing some reading as I work on developing an evaluation plan for a complex program that will be implemented at many sites. Here are some notes from a few papers that I’ve read – I think if anything links … Continue reading
Report on “Delivering the Benefits of Digital Health Care”
A report on “Delivering the benefits of digital health care” from Nuffield Trust in the UK recently came across my desk. It covers a bigger scope of technology than the project I’m working on (which is a project about transforming … Continue reading
Posted in healthcare, information technology, notes
Tagged clinical informatics, digital healthcare, eHealth, electronic health records, evidence-informed decision making, health informatics, health information management, healthcare, healthcare IT, informatics, information technology, IT, learning healthcare system, notes, quality improvement
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Complex Adaptive Systems
We often hear that “The health care field is complex, perhaps the most complex of any area of the economy (Morrison, 200, cited in Begun et al, 2003). And yet despite the number of times I’ve heard this, I often … Continue reading
Posted in evaluation, healthcare, notes
Tagged complex adaptive systems, complexity, complexity science, evaluation, notes, systems
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More on evaluating healthcare IT
Evaluating informatics applications – some alterative approaches: theory, social interactionism, and call for methodological pluralism evaluating informatics tools, such as clinical decision support tools, under controlled conditions doesn’t provide information about how context (including human and cultural factors) affect whether … Continue reading
More About Measuring Errors and Adverse Events
The Measurement of Active Errors in quality improvement, we often need to measure things for comparative purposes: to compare organizations/clinicians with each other to draw cause and effect conclusions about how something (e.g., a policy, a process) affected safety/quality to … Continue reading
To Err is Human
To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System is a classic report in the field of patient safety that was published in 2000 by the Committee on Quality of Health Care in America (Institute of Medicine). My notes from the … Continue reading
Posted in healthcare, notes
Tagged adverse events, errors, health, healthcare, patient safety
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Complexity of EHR implementation and evaluation design
As I’ve mentioned, I’m currently developing an evaluation for the implementation of an electronic health record (EHR) system. Specifically, this project crosses multiple healthcare organizations, will be implemented in dozens of healthcare facilities run by those organizations, and will be used … Continue reading
Informatics, Big Data, and Data Visualization
Notes from module 10 of the Interprofessional Health Informatics course I’m working on (plus side reading that I did to fill in some blanks/learn more about some things mentioned in the course). Big Data = size of a database that is … Continue reading
Posted in data analysis, evaluation tools, healthcare, information technology, notes, online module notes, research
Tagged Big Data, coursera, data visualization, eHealth, electronic health records, health informatics, health information management, healthcare, healthcare IT, informatics, information technology, IT, learning healthcare system, notes, online module notes
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Health Information Exchange
Notes from module 9 of the Interprofessional Health Informatics course I’m working on (plus side reading that I did to fill in some blanks/learn more about some things mentioned in the course). Interoperability Interoperability: “the ability of two or more … Continue reading
Posted in healthcare, information technology, notes, online module notes
Tagged coursera, eHealth, electronic health records, health informatics, health information management, healthcare, healthcare IT, informatics, information technology, iNMDS, interoperability, IT, learning healthcare system, NMDS, NMMDS, notes, online module notes, standardization
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Informatics and Ethics
Notes from module 8 of the Interprofessional Health Informatics course I’m working on (plus side reading that I did to fill in some blanks/learn more about some things mentioned in the course). “knowledge is power” – Sir Francis Bacon, 1597 … Continue reading
Posted in healthcare, information technology, notes, online module notes
Tagged coursera, eHealth, electronic health records, ethics, evidence-informed decision making, health informatics, health information management, healthcare, healthcare IT, informatics, information technology, IT, learning healthcare system, notes, online module notes
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