Ready for HIT Innovations? : Developing a Tool to Assess the Professionalism of Information Management in Hospitals
- Current frameworks postulate the success of health IT innovations to be determined by the professionalism of the information management (PIM). Still, empirical knowledge about PIM is scarce up until today. This study seeks to answer three research questions: (1.) How can PIM be measured in a reliable and valid way, (2.) how pronounced is PIM in German hospitals and (3.) do hospital characteristics have an impact on the degree of PIM? Based on the results of an expert workshop and frameworks for information management (IM) items for a PIM inventory were developed and the inventory sent to 1349 chief information officers of German hospitals. A principle component analysis based on the responses of 196 hospitals confirmed the three components that had been proposed by the frameworks: the strategic, the tactical and the operational level. The full inventory implied satisfying reliability and allowed a PIM composite-score to be calculated. The PIM scores for strategic and tactical IM were found to be far lower than for operational IM which hints at strong deficits in these areas. A stepwise regression model indicated that the degree of PIM significantly increased with the size of the hospital, which had been expected and hints the validity of the PIM inventory. This tool offers potentials for hospitals to classify and improve their IM.
Author: | Jan-David LiebeORCiD, Moritz EsdarORCiD, Ursula Hertha HübnerORCiD |
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Title (English): | Ready for HIT Innovations? : Developing a Tool to Assess the Professionalism of Information Management in Hospitals |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:959-opus-20651 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-852-5-800 |
ISBN: | 978-1-61499-851-8 |
ISBN: | 978-1-61499-852-5 |
Parent Title (English): | Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data : The Future of Co-Created eHealth |
Publisher: | IOS Press |
Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2018 |
Release Date: | 2021/05/20 |
First Page: | 800 |
Last Page: | 804 |
Note: | MIE2018, 24.04. - 26.04.2018, Göteborg (Schweden) |
Faculties: | Fakultät WiSo |
DDC classes: | 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 610 Medizin, Gesundheit |
Review Status: | Veröffentlichte Fassung/Verlagsversion |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |