Methodology for constructive assessment of IT-based systems in an organisational context

Evaluation of Electronic Health Record Systems

“…Nevertheless, monitoring is increasingly seen accompanying, for instance, national planning and strategies for health information systems including EHR. The evaluation methodologies in health informatics are addressed by a number of publications [8][9][10][11][12][13] The textbooks by Anderson et al [8] and van Gennip et al [13] are both multiauthored collections of articles presenting a spectrum of methodological approaches complemented by a number of cases. The textbook by Friedman and Wyatt from 1997 [12] presents a focused and homogeneous picture of evaluation methodology.…”

“…Among other fundamental evaluation method concepts they introduce the distinction between objectivist and subjectivist approaches. The text published by Brender 1997 [10] is a monograph and a slightly edited version of a European Doctorate Thesis. It contains a literature survey, development of a methodology for assessment of knowledge based systems, a full scale prospective case study and at last a synthesis of the dynamic assessment methodology.…”

“…Brender has recently published a new book on evaluation methodologies [11]. This book is an elaboration of the ideas presented in [10]. The ideas are communicated in a handbook manner which enables the reader to plan and perform evaluation projects in a systematic and explicit way.…”

E-Health readiness framework from Electronic Health Records perspective

“…Accordingly, numerous methods can be used, e.g. balanced scorecard (Gordon et al 1999;Protti, 2002), field study (Brender, 1999), focus group interview (Steward et al 1990), organisational readiness (Khoja et al 2007) and the like (Brender, 2006). E-Health readiness assessment, for example, is a way of identifying the potential causes of failure to innovate.…”

Assessment of the effect of the ready availability of radiology results on clinical decision making at Princess Alexandra Hospital Brisbane, Australia

“…Researches such as Brender [12] have provided insight into the need for user involvement in the interactive process of computer system development in a hospital setting in order to gain user acceptance and support for the final product. Informatics specialists such as Coiera and Tombs [13] and Parker and Coiera [14] are applying basic research in human communication from the disciplines of psychology and sociology to the analysis of how the introduction of computer technology may assist the medical communication process.…”