Health IT
FW: PLoS - Evaluating eHealth Collection
The articles published below I think are worth looking at and are free access on the PLOS website.
Warm regards,
Joaquin
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Founder, eHealth Systems Chile
Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School/Partners In Health
Moderator, GHDOnline.org<http://www.GHDOnline.org>
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Evaluating eHealth Collection
"..........PLoS Medicine<http://www.plosmedicine.org/home.action> published a three part series examining the emergence of eHealth-the use of electronic tools in delivering health care-and its benefits and challenges worldwide. In the first paper, Lorraine Catwell and Aziz Sheikh<http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000126>, the Guest Editor of the series, argue that until eHealth interventions are "fit for purpose," health care professionals are unlikely to adopt them.
They propose an evaluative process for the design, development, and deployment of eHealth interventions. David Bates and Adam Wright's<http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000105> paper explores international collaborations in delivering and evaluating Health, and how these collaborations can be further researched. In the final paper, Richard Lilford and Mike Pringle<http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000186> propose a set of scientific principles for evaluating highly complex service interventions such as IT systems, as an alternative to external formative assessments.........."
Evaluating eHealth Interventions: The Need for Continuous Systemic Evaluation<http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000126;jsessionid=65BD4CB8B7702F15D660BCF8A50ACF4B.ambra02>
Lorraine Catwell, Aziz Sheikh
PLoS Medicine:
Published 18 Aug 2009 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000126
Evaluating eHealth: Undertaking Robust International Cross-Cultural eHealth Research<http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000105;jsessionid=65BD4CB8B7702F15D660BCF8A50ACF4B.ambra02>
David W. Bates, Adam Wright
PLoS Medicine:
Published 15 Sep 2009 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000105
Evaluating eHealth: How to Make Evaluation More Methodologically Robust<http://www.ploscollections.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000186;jsessionid=65BD4CB8B7702F15D660BCF8A50ACF4B.ambra02>
Richard James Lilford, Jo Foster, Mike Pringle
PLoS Medicine:
Published 24 Nov 2009 | info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000186
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