Quality of health IT evaluations

Pirkko Nykänen; Johanna Kaipio

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-635-4-291

Quality of health IT evaluations

Pirkko Nykänen^*, Johanna Kaipio

^*Corresponding author for this work

Tampere University

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Abstract

Health IT evaluation studies have often been found to be of limited quality. To address this problem, several guidelines and frameworks have been developed as tools to support improvement of the quality of evaluation studies. In this contribution, we review available guidelines and then present the Good Evaluation Practice Guideline in Health Informatics (GEP-HI) in more detail. GEPHI is a comprehensive guideline which supports especially planning and execution of a health IT evaluation study. The GEP-HI guideline helps to overcome the quality problems related to weak study planning and methodological study design. We also discuss application of GEP-HI on an evaluation project and discuss the need to publish systematically following the recognised publication guidelines. Finally we discuss the future trend on multi-method evaluation approaches.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Evidence-Based Health Informatics: Promoting Safety and Efficiency through Scientific Methods and Ethical Policy
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	291-303
Number of pages	13
Volume	222
ISBN (Electronic)	9781614996354
ISBN (Print)	9781614996347
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-635-4-291
Publication status	Published - 20 May 2016
MoE publication type	A3 Book section, Chapters in research books

Keywords

Evaluation
Framework
Guideline
Health IT
Quality
Scope

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