Maeder Anthony, Gray Kathleen, Borda Ann, Poultney Nathan, Basilakis Jim
School of Computing, Engineering & Mathematics, University of Western Sydney, Campbelltown, Australia.
Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015;209:84-94.
Telehealth pilot projects and trial implementations are numerous but are often not fully evaluated, preventing construction of a sound evidence base and so limiting their adoption. We describe the need for a generic Telehealth project evaluation framework, within which evaluation is undertaken based on existing health systems performance indicators, using appropriately chosen measures. We provide two case studies explaining how this approach could be applied, in Australian and Canadian settings. It is argued that this framework type of approach to evaluation offers better potential for incorporating the learnings from resultant evaluations into business decisions by "learning organisations", through alignment with organisational performance considerations.
远程医疗试点项目和试验性实施项目众多，但往往没有得到充分评估，这阻碍了可靠证据基础的构建，从而限制了它们的采用。我们阐述了对通用远程医疗项目评估框架的需求，在此框架内，基于现有的卫生系统绩效指标，使用适当选择的衡量标准进行评估。我们提供了两个案例研究，解释了这种方法在澳大利亚和加拿大背景下如何应用。有人认为，这种框架式的评估方法通过与组织绩效考量相结合，为“学习型组织”将评估结果中的经验教训纳入商业决策提供了更好的潜力。
