Opportunities and Challenges in Healthcare Information Systems Research: Caring for Patients with Chronic Conditions

2019 ◽  
pp. 852-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuk Ying Ho ◽  
Xitong Guo ◽  
Doug Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Healthcare Information ◽  
Healthcare Information Systems ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research

scholarly journals IT-Standards and Standardization Approaches in Healthcare

2008 ◽  
pp. 813-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Sunyaev ◽  
Jan Marco Leimeister ◽  
Andreas Schweiger ◽  
Helmut Krcmar
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Integrated Treatment ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Healthcare Information ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
Health Insurance Companies

E-health basically comprises health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet and related technologies (Eysenbach, 2001). The future healthcare system and its services, enabling e-health, are based on the communication between all information systems of all participants of an integrated treatment. Connecting the elements of each healthcare system (general practitioners, hospitals, health insurance companies, pharmacies, and so on)—even across national boarders—is an important issue for information systems research in healthcare. Current developments, such as upcoming or already-deployed electronic healthcare chip cards (that are to be used across Europe), show the need for Europe-wide standards and norms (Schweiger, Sunyaev, Leimeister, & Krcmar, 2007). In this article, we first outline the advantages of the standards, and then describe their main characteristics. After the introduction of communication standards, we present their comparison with the aim to support the different functions in the healthcare information systems. Subsequently, we describe the documentation standards, and discuss the goals of existing standardization approaches. Implications conclude the article.

Healthcare Information Systems Research

2011 ◽  
pp. 192-210
Author(s):  
Alexander J. McLeod ◽  
Jan G. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Stakeholder Analysis ◽  
Healthcare Setting ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Emergency Rooms ◽  
Healthcare Information ◽  
Is Research ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
Is Theory

It is not a simple matter to generalize healthcare IS research, assuming that it is equivalent to organizational IS research. Hospitals, emergency rooms, and laboratories are very different from the normal “business” environment, and “healthcare users” vary considerably in the role that they play. Therefore, IS researchers need to understand the healthcare setting before they can appropriately apply IS theory. Obviously, if we are studying the wrong person, or group of people, we cannot expect to produce relevant research. In order to alleviate confusion regarding who is the user in healthcare IS research, we provide examples of several healthcare scenarios, perform a simplified stakeholder analysis in each scenario, and identify the stakeholders and their roles in each scenario.

A Bridge Too Far?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte P. Lee ◽  
Kjeld Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cooperative Work ◽  
Computer Supported Cooperative Work ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Infrastructures ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
Critical Investigation

The study of computing infrastructures has grown significantly due to the rapid proliferation and ubiquity of large-scale IT-based installations. At the same time, recognition has also grown of the usefulness of such studies as a means for understanding computing infrastructures as material complements of practical action. Subsequently the concept of “infrastructure” (or “information infrastructures,” “cyberinfrastructures,” and “infrastructuring”) has gained increasing importance in the area of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) as well as in neighboring areas such as Information Systems research (IS) and Science and Technology Studies (STS). However, as such studies have unfolded, the very concept of “infrastructure” is being applied in different discourses, for different purposes, in myriad different senses. Consequently, the concept of “infrastructure” has become increasingly muddled and needs clarification. The chapter presents a critical investigation of the vicissitudes of the concept of “infrastructure” over the last 35 years.

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