Akhlaq Ather, McKinstry Brian, Sheikh Aziz
Institute of Business Management.
The University of Edinburgh.
J Innov Health Inform. 2018 Dec 31;25(4):230-238. doi: 10.14236/jhi.v25i4.1022.
Due to the many advantages of open source software (OSS), including reduced cost of licensing, more flexibility in terms of customisation and redistribution, better quality and no vendor lock-in, OSS in healthcare is increasingly gaining importance. Various open source health information technologies (OS-HITs) are continuously being designed and developed for different areas of healthcare to increase organisational efficiencies and quality of care at minimum costs. The objective of this scoping review is to identify the kinds of existing OS-HITs, their characteristics (e.g. functions) and capabilities (e.g. advantages/disadvantages) for various healthcare stakeholders (physicians and patients) and healthcare sectors (e.g. clinical, administrative).
We will conduct a scoping review to identify the range of available OS-HITs in international literature from 1980 to September 2018. Searches will be conducted in six major international databases, namely: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature Plus, Excerpta Medica Database, Global Health, Library Information Science and Technology Abstracts, Medline and Web of Science to identify relevant published research. We will also search the Google search engine and Google Scholar for on-going and unpublished work and the grey literature. Searches will be peer-reviewed by two independent reviewers and will not be limited by methodology or language. Next, selected references will be tabulated for study characteristics by author affiliation, country of origin, the name of OS-HIT, healthcare area/sector, system requirements, stakeholders, complete solution and web link. Furthermore, functions, benefits/advantages, disadvantages and outcomes (e.g. usability) of OS-HITs will be extracted. Narrative and interpretative synthesis of data will be undertaken.
We will report our findings in a peer-reviewed journal.
由于开源软件（OSS）具有诸多优势，包括降低许可成本、在定制和重新分发方面更具灵活性、质量更高且不存在供应商锁定问题，因此开源软件在医疗保健领域的重要性日益凸显。各种开源健康信息技术（OS-HITs）不断被设计和开发，应用于医疗保健的不同领域，以最低成本提高组织效率和护理质量。本范围综述的目的是确定现有OS-HITs的种类、其特征（如功能）以及针对各类医疗保健利益相关者（医生和患者）和医疗保健部门（如临床、行政）的能力（如优势/劣势）。
我们将进行一项范围综述，以确定1980年至2018年9月国际文献中可用的OS-HITs范围。将在六个主要国际数据库中进行检索，即：护理及相关健康文献累积索引升级版、医学文摘数据库、全球健康、图书馆信息科学与技术文摘、医学索引和科学引文索引，以识别相关已发表研究。我们还将在谷歌搜索引擎和谷歌学术中搜索正在进行的和未发表的工作以及灰色文献。检索将由两名独立评审员进行同行评审，且不受方法或语言限制。接下来，将按作者所属机构、原产国、OS-HIT名称、医疗保健领域/部门、系统要求、利益相关者、完整解决方案和网络链接对选定参考文献进行列表，以列出研究特征。此外，将提取OS-HITs的功能、益处/优势、劣势和结果（如可用性）。将对数据进行叙述性和解释性综合分析。
我们将在同行评审期刊上报告我们的研究结果。
