Nøhr Christian, Kuziemsky Craig E, Elkin Peter L, Marcilly Romaric, Pelayo Sylvia
Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark.
Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019 Aug 9;265:3-11. doi: 10.3233/SHTI190129.
The digital transformation of health care delivery remains an elusive work in progress. Contextual variation continues to be a significant barrier to the development of sustainable health information systems. In this paper we characterize health informaticians as modern alchemists and use this characterization to describe informatics progress in addressing four key healthcare challenges. We highlight the need for informaticians to be diligent and loyal to basic methodological principles while also appreciating the role that contextual variation plays in informatics research. We also emphasize that meaningful health systems transformation takes time. The insight presented in this paper helps informaticians in our quest to develop sustainable health information systems.
医疗服务的数字化转型仍是一项难以捉摸且仍在进行中的工作。背景差异仍然是可持续健康信息系统发展的重大障碍。在本文中,我们将健康信息专家描述为现代炼金术士,并利用这一描述来阐述信息学在应对四个关键医疗挑战方面取得的进展。我们强调,健康信息专家需要坚守基本的方法论原则,同时也要认识到背景差异在信息学研究中所起的作用。我们还强调,有意义的卫生系统转型需要时间。本文所提出的见解有助于健康信息专家在开发可持续健康信息系统的探索中提供参考。