Evaluating computerised health information systems: Article contains inaccuracies

Evaluating computerised health information systems: hard lessons still to be learnt.

Enormous investment has gone into computerised hospital information systems worldwide. The estimated costs for each large hospital are about $50m (£33m), yet the overall benefits and costs of hospital information systems have rarely been assessed. When systems are evaluated, about three quarters are considered to have failed, and there is no evidence that they improve the productivity of health...

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Evaluating Health Information Systems Using Ontologies

BACKGROUND There are several frameworks that attempt to address the challenges of evaluation of health information systems by offering models, methods, and guidelines about what to evaluate, how to evaluate, and how to report the evaluation results. Model-based evaluation frameworks usually suggest universally applicable evaluation aspects but do not consider case-specific aspects. On the other...

Garvican systems : hard lessons still to be learnt Evaluating computerised health

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7394/860 Updated information and services can be found at: These include: Data supplement http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7394/860/DC1 "Protocol of evaluation" References http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7394/860#otherarticles 11 online articles that cite this article can be accessed at: http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7394/860#BIBL This article ci...

Evaluating health information systems: an assessment of frameworks.

The rapid increase in investments for computerised systems is a major concern for all health organisations. Questions about these investments arise as information technology is only one of the areas that are competing for a finite amount of resources. There is also some concern that some of the failures of information technology would have been detected if proper evaluation of information syste...