Publication:
E-health readiness assessment from EHR perspective

dc.contributor.advisor Ray, Pradeep en_US
dc.contributor.advisor Land, Lesley en_US
dc.contributor.author Li, Junhua en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-22T09:02:21Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-22T09:02:21Z
dc.date.issued 2008 en_US
dc.description.abstract Many countries (especially developing countries) are plagued with critical healthcare issues such as chronic, infectious and pandemic diseases, a lack of basic healthcare programmes and facilities and a shortage of skilled healthcare workers. E-Health (healthcare based on the Internet technologies) promises to overcome some problems related to the reach of healthcare in remote communities. Electronic Health Record (EHR) (consisting of all diagnostic information related to a patient) forms the core of any E-Health system. Hence the success of an E-Health system is very much dependent on the success of the EHR systems. Although interest in automating the health record is generally high, the literature informs us that they do not always succeed in terms of adoption rate and/or acceptance, even in developed countries. The success of the adoption tends to be low for resource constrained (e.g. insufficient E-Health infrastructure) developing countries. As part of the effort to enhance EHR acceptance, readiness assessment for the innovation becomes an essential requirement for the successful implementation and use of EHR (and hence E-Health). Based on a thorough literature review, several research gaps have been identified. In order to address these gaps, this thesis (based on design science research methodology) presents E-Health Readiness Assessment Methodology (EHRAM). It involves a new E-Health Readiness Assessment Framework (EHRAF), an assessment process and several techniques for analysing the assessment data to arrive at a readiness score. The EHRAF (Model) integrates the components from healthcare providers’ and organisational perspectives of existing E-Health readiness evaluation frameworks. The process of EHRAM (Method) starts with the development of a set of hierarchical evaluation criteria based on EHRAF. This leads to the questionnaire development for data collection. The data is analysed in EHRAM using a number of statistical and data mining techniques. The instantiation part of the design science research involves an automated tool for the implementation of EHRAM and its application through a case study in a developing country. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/42930
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher UNSW, Sydney en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.subject.other assessment en_US
dc.subject.other E-health en_US
dc.subject.other readiness en_US
dc.subject.other EHR en_US
dc.subject.other paper health records en_US
dc.subject.other design science en_US
dc.subject.other framework en_US
dc.subject.other evaluation en_US
dc.subject.other Developing Countries en_US
dc.title E-health readiness assessment from EHR perspective en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
dcterms.accessRights open access
dcterms.rightsHolder Li, Junhua
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/17983
unsw.relation.faculty Business
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Li, Junhua, Information Systems, Technology & Management, Australian School of Business, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Ray, Pradeep, Information Systems, Technology & Management, Australian School of Business, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Land, Lesley, Information Systems, Technology & Management, Australian School of Business, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Information Systems & Technology Management *
unsw.thesis.degreetype Masters Thesis en_US
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
whole.pdf
Size:
1.64 MB
Format:
application/pdf
Description:
Resource type