TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION EVALUATION MODEL

Organizational Technology Integration Evaluation Model

Organizational Technology Integration Evaluation Model

Introduction

Experimentation of new data and connection technologies (ICT) bears numerous challenges to the health care system, underscoring the significance of incorporated evaluations in such projects. Since distinct types of decision-makers at the localized, local and centered levels - as well as partners from the public and personal sectors are engaged in these projects, evaluation should be useful and usable in alignment to announce and support decision-making at multiple levels. Although the relevance of incorporated evaluations in projects inserting new ICTs has been accepted, publications remains negligible on the theme of useful and usable evaluations to support decision-making in this field.(Yin, 2003)

Evaluation of ICTs can be believed as a health expertise assessment (HTA) activity. HTA is an directed area of research that is administered at the output of scientific clues about the efficacy and utility of techniques, technologies, practices, and modalities of health care delivery. HTA refers to a multidisciplinary research and evaluation area directed at making principle applicable data on health care technologies. In HTA, health care technologies are characterised amply and cover any perform, decision-making or costing structure, remedy modality, and convention of organisation and service delivery. E-health, telehealth and health data systems compose one of the very broad categories of health technologies. Although results from HTA are mainly proposed to announce policy-making, the usual designs of HTA have not directed to the information transfers wanted for. It is thus essential to consider strategies that could increase the translation of results from ICT evaluations into e-health policies.

 

Discussion

Evaluation leverage has been characterised as the capability of an evaluation process to sway the various stakeholders and organizations that are being evaluated. Specifically, evaluation in the area of ICTs is accepted to assist to initiation, implementation, sustainability and diffusion of the innovation.(Fortin, 2003) Some researchers have studied the leverage of HTA on political decision-making and recognised distinct opportunities that could increase its impact. For instance, Jacob & McGreggor (1997) have discovered that HTA should convey a discernible message, corresponding to decision-makers' needs for data, in alignment to influence policy-making. Nonetheless, their results have shown that HTA results were not the sole source of leverage on decision-making; the complexity of interactions between the distinct stakeholders engaged in the projects analysed made it tough to isolate HTA's influence from these actors' own influence. Lavis and collaborators (2002) have discovered that integration of research results into principle producing was advanced when policy-makers had combined with researchers in principle formulation or development. Studies that have tried to assess the influence of ICTs evaluations on principle decisions are limited. Hailey, Ohinmaa and Roine (2003) have investigated the promise impacts of telehealth projects' evaluation on decision-making. Among the 46 studies they have reconsidered, 17 presented a promise leverage on subsequent decisions associated to telehealth services. However, the genuine influence of this evaluation on decisions was not assessed in the study. Until now, numerous evaluation frameworks have been evolved and directed to the area of ...