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Published in: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 1/2010

Open Access 01-12-2010 | Software

Development and formative evaluation of the e-Health Implementation Toolkit (e-HIT)

Authors: Elizabeth Murray, Carl May, Frances Mair

Published in: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making | Issue 1/2010

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Abstract

Background

The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) or e-Health is seen as essential for a modern, cost-effective health service. However, there are well documented problems with implementation of e-Health initiatives, despite the existence of a great deal of research into how best to implement e-Health (an example of the gap between research and practice). This paper reports on the development and formative evaluation of an e-Health Implementation Toolkit (e-HIT) which aims to summarise and synthesise new and existing research on implementation of e-Health initiatives, and present it to senior managers in a user-friendly format.

Results

The content of the e-HIT was derived by combining data from a systematic review of reviews of barriers and facilitators to implementation of e-Health initiatives with qualitative data derived from interviews of "implementers", that is people who had been charged with implementing an e-Health initiative. These data were summarised, synthesised and combined with the constructs from the Normalisation Process Model. The software for the toolkit was developed by a commercial company (RocketScience). Formative evaluation was undertaken by obtaining user feedback.
There are three components to the toolkit - a section on background and instructions for use aimed at novice users; the toolkit itself; and the report generated by completing the toolkit. It is available to download from http://​www.​ucl.​ac.​uk/​pcph/​research/​ehealth/​documents/​e-HIT.​xls

Conclusions

The e-HIT shows potential as a tool for enhancing future e-Health implementations. Further work is needed to make it fully web-enabled, and to determine its predictive potential for future implementations.
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Metadata
Title
Development and formative evaluation of the e-Health Implementation Toolkit (e-HIT)
Authors
Elizabeth Murray
Carl May
Frances Mair
Publication date
01-12-2010
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making / Issue 1/2010
Electronic ISSN: 1472-6947
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-10-61

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