title: [An Introduction to Methods for Evaluating Health Care Technology].
abstract: The rapid and continual advance of healthcare technology makes ensuring that this technology is used effectively to achieve its original goals a critical issue. This paper presents three methods that may be applied by healthcare professionals in the evaluation of healthcare technology. These methods include: the perception/experiences of users, user work-pattern changes, and chart review or data mining. The first method includes two categories: using interviews to explore the user experience and using theory-based questionnaire surveys. The second method applies work sampling to observe the work pattern changes of users. The last method conducts chart reviews or data mining to analyze the designated variables. In conclusion, while evaluative feedback may be used to improve the design and development of healthcare technology applications, the informatics competency and informatics literacy of users may be further explored in future research.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, College of Nursing, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taiwan, ROC. tingting@ntunhs.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Ting-Ting
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology; D006801:Humans
keywords: data mining; evaluation method; information technology; interviews; questionnaire survey; work sampling