Alhuwail Dari, Koru Güneş, Mills Mary Etta
a Department of Information Science , Kuwait University , Al-Adailiya , Kuwait.
b Department of Information Systems , University of Maryland, Baltimore County , Baltimore , Maryland , USA.
Home Health Care Serv Q. 2016 Jul-Dec;35(3-4):155-171. doi: 10.1080/01621424.2016.1264340.
In the United States, home care clinicians often start the episode of care devoid of relevant fall-risk information. By collecting and analyzing qualitative data from 30 clinicians in one home health agency, this case study aimed to understand how the currently adopted information technology solutions supported the clinicians' fall-risk management (FRM) information domains, and explored opportunities to adopt other solutions to better support FRM. The currently adopted electronic health record system and fall-reporting application served only some information domains with a limited capacity. Substantial improvement in addressing the FRM information domains is possible by effectively modifying the existing solutions and purposefully adopting new solutions.
