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Large Scale eHealth Systems: Providing Information to Support Evidence-based Management

Authors:
Hannele Hyppönen
Johanna Viitanen
Jarmo Reponen
Persephone Doupi
Vesa Jormanainen
Tinja Lääveri
Jukka Vänskä
Ilkka Winblad
Päivi Hämäläinen

Keywords: Medical informatics; eHealth Policy; electronic patient record system;, evidence based management; evaluation

Abstract:
Abstract—This article describes lessons from a large scale eHealth system implementation in Finland from the viewpoint of evidence-based management. All European Union member states have a documented policy on eHealth. A quick literature review showed that documented evidence-based management strategies for large-scale eHealth system implementation are rare. The Finnish framework for providing formative and summative evidence for the national eHealth system implementation was generated guided by some other large scale IS assessment frameworks, especially the Canadian approach. First results of the framework’s implementation for collecting baseline data are presented together with a plan to use the data for decision making in the national eHealth system development. The main outputs of the paper are 1) the categories of evidence collected in Finland to support decisions in the national eHealth system implementation and follow-up, 2) demonstration of use of these categories in providing results from the baseline situation.

Pages: 89 to 95

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: February 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-119-9

Location: Gosier, Guadeloupe, France

Dates: from February 23, 2011 to February 28, 2011