Local clinician involvement in clinical information systems: luxury
or necessity? — a review of two international experiences
Professor Denis Protti looks at how the early and continuing
involvement of clinical-information users influences the design and
implementation of new systems positively.
keywords: clinician
involvement, clinical information systems, international experiences,
electronic healthcare records, systems design, systems implementation,
national strategy.
abstract
Given England’s plan to invest £2.3bn in national healthcare-IT
systems, how can one best square the need for centralised/standardised
policy with getting local support and use? Is it important to solicit
meaningful clinician input early and often and act upon it? Over many
years, some have felt that NHS informatics developments have suffered
from being under-utilised by their potential users. This article
investigates lessons to be learned about clinician involvement from
successful centrally directed nationwide (vs national) rollouts from
Denmark and New Zealand.
Br J Healthcare Comput Info Manage 2003; 20(10): 28–30 |
