Applying a Systems Approach to eHealth
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Elements
- Consider eHealth and Health Care as interacting parts of the Health System
- Synthesise multiple views, esp Technical and Health Care views, using a systems approach
- Focus on Health Systems Improvement
- Understanding The Improvement Paradox and
- Systems Methods for Interventions
- Better health decisions
- Learning to Think and Act Effectively
- Health capability to support learning from own and others experience
- Systems as collections of interacting services
- Technical Services Orientation
- SOA as Needs Services and Resources
- SOA Architecture
- SOA Ontology
- Value of services as capability to meet needs, including affordability
- Services as interaction between needs and resources,
- Composed in advance or individually customised from modules
- within a dynamic context (environment, people, process, org, technology)
- Knowledge and Skills Based work as Informing,Deciding, Acting and Communicating
- A recognition of the changes in eHealth evolution, the goal of a digital learning infrastructure and its support for organized regional health care
- Applying the Systems Approach
- Combined pattern oriented and individual based modelling for synthesising policy and practice experiments
- Explicit representation of time and space (Just to keep things tidy)
- Stakeholder concerns (under short and long term uncertainty and conflicting preferences)
- Reflexive governance
- Focal Interactions between eHealth and Health Systems Improvement
- Linking particular patient data to patterns of medical knowledge
- Problem knowledge coupler
- Designing information flows for communication and control
- Safety and Quality of Clinical Work through Care Decisions linked with Workflow
- Clinical Decision Support Cycles
- Exploratory and Predictive modelling with virtual experiments
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