Validation of the Impact of Health Information Technology (I-HIT) Scale: an international collaborative.
In 2005, the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Nursing Informatics Community developed a survey to measure the impact of health information technology (HIT), the I-HIT Scale, on the role of nurses and interdisciplinary communication in hospital settings. In 2007, nursing informatics colleagues from Australia, England, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and the United States formed a research collaborative to validate the I-HIT across countries. All teams have completed construct and face validation in their countries. Five out of six teams have initiated reliability testing by practicing nurses. This paper reports the international collaborative's validation of the I-HIT Scale completed to date.
Dykes
Patricia C
PC
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. pdykes@partners.org
Hurley
Ann C
AC
Brown
Suzanne
S
Carr
Robyn
R
Cashen
Margaret
M
Collins
Rita
R
Cook
Robyn
R
Currie
Leanne
L
Docherty
Charles
C
Ensio
Anneli
A
Foster
Joanne
J
Hardiker
Nicholas R
NR
Honey
Michelle L L
ML
Killalea
Rosaleen
R
Murphy
Judy
J
Saranto
Kaija
K
Sensmeier
Joyce
J
Weaver
Charlotte
C
D019538:Health Care Surveys / Q000592:standards*; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007391:International Cooperation; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009736:Nursing Process