title: The Evaluation Imperative.
abstract: With the advent of wide scale adoption and use of clinical information systems and other technologies to support the delivery of healthcare services, the inclusion of iterative evaluation is an often overlooked but important component of project management. In this paper, it is proffered that the evaluation process should be an imperative and initiated at the outset of the design and implementation of clinical information systems including any single component of hardware or software. Ideally, methods of evaluation should be multi-faceted, include formative and summative evaluation approaches and include a range of metrics that will provide organizations with insight to process and technology efficiency and effectiveness as well as human and financial impacts.
authors.affiliation: Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Lynn M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Nagle
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000458:organization & administration; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000145:classification* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*