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Background
Against the background of a steadily increasing degree of digitalization in health care, a professional information management (IM) is required to successfully plan, implement, and evaluate information technology (IT). At its core, IM has to ensure a high quality of health data and health information systems to support patient care.
Objectives
The goal of the present study was to define what constitutes professional IM as a construct as well as to propose a reliable and valid measurement instrument.
Methods
To develop and validate the construct of professionalism of information management (PIM) and itsmeasurement, a stepwise approach followed an established procedure from information systems and behavioral research. The procedure included an analysis of the pertaining literature and expert rounds on the construct and the
instrument, two consecutive and comprehensive surveys at the national and international level, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses as well as reliability and validity testing.
Results
Professionalism of information management was developed as a construct consisting of the three dimensions of strategic, tactical, and operational IMas well as of the regularity and cyclical phases of IM procedures as the two elements of professionalism.
The PIM instrument operationalized the construct providing items that incorporated IM procedures along the three dimensions and cyclical phases. These procedures had to be evaluated against their degree of regularity in the instrument. The instrument proved to be reliable and valid in two consecutive measurement phases
and across three countries.
Conclusion
It can be concluded that professionalism of information management is a meaningful construct that can be operationalized in a scientifically rigorous manner. Both science and practice can benefit from these developments in terms of improved self-assessment, benchmarking capabilities, and eventually, obtaining a better understanding of health IT maturity.
IT braucht Leadership
(2014)
Die Ergebnisse des IT-Reports Gesundheitswesen zeigen, dass der Pro-zess der Visitenvorbereitung, -durch-führung und -nachbereitung am besten durch IT unterstützt wurde, gefolgt von der OP- Vorbereitung, der OP-Nachbereitung und schließlich der Entlassung (Abbildung l). Von möglichen zehn Punkten in dem jeweiligen Prozess-Score erreichte im Mittel nur die Visite einen Wert über 6,0. Mit 5,3 erzielte der Entlassungsprozess einen deutlich niedrigeren Wert.
Benchmarking, sprich die Vergleichsanalyse von Prozessen mit festgelegtem Bezugswert, findet zunehmend Einzug in die Welt der Gesundheits-IT. Dabei spielen jedoch viele Faktoren zusammen, die einen einfachen Vergleich von IT-Kosten bei Weitem übersteigen. Eine Forschungsgruppe der Hochschule Osnabrück hat mit dem IT-Benchmark Gesundheitswesen ein Analysetool vorgelegt, das auch einen Länder- vergleich ermöglicht.