RESEARCH ARTICLE
STAT-HI: A Socio-Technical Assessment Tool for Health Informatics Implementations
Philip J Scott*, James S Briggs
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2010Volume: 4
First Page: 214
Last Page: 220
Publisher Id: TOMINFOJ-4-214
DOI: 10.2174/1874431101004010214
Article History:
Received Date: 28/11/2009Revision Received Date: 21/1/2010
Acceptance Date: 22/1/2010
Electronic publication date: 15/9/2010
Collection year: 2010
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Abstract
This paper proposes a socio-technical assessment tool (STAT-HI) for health informatics implementations. We explore why even projects allegedly using sound methodologies repeatedly fail to give adequate attention to socio-technical issues, and we present an initial draft of a structured assessment tool for health informatics implementation that encapsulates socio-technical good practice. Further work is proposed to enrich and validate the proposed instrument. This proposal was presented for discussion at a meeting of the UK Faculty of Health Informatics in December 2009.
Keywords: Socio-technical, checklist, project management, programme management, hospital information system, complex systems.
