Extending the infoway benefits evaluation framework for health information systems.
A proposal is made that extends the current Canada Health Infoway Benefits Evaluation (BE) Framework for Health Information Systems (HIS) being deployed in Canada. The current BE framework takes a micro view of HIS quality, use and impact at the local level whereas the extended framework takes into account the broader socio-organizational and contextual aspects known as the meso and macro views of HIS deployment. The meso view addresses the people, organization, network and implementation dimensions. The macro view focuses on the contextual dimensions of technology standard, funding/incentive, legislation/policy and professional practice. Validation of this extended BE framework is being planned through a comparative review of recent HIS evaluation literature, a Delphi-consensus process with HIS experts and users, and multiple validation studies with recent HIS implementation projects in British Columbia.
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School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
D002170:Canada; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics