The Digital Transformation of Healthcare: Current Status and the Road Ahead
The Digital Transformation of Healthcare: Current Status and the Road Ahead
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DOI：
10.1287/isre.1100.0327
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发表时间：
2010-12-01
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
Jha, Ashish K.
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作者：
Agarwal, Ritu;Gao, Guodong (Gordon);Jha, Ashish K.
随着美国在医疗保健系统数字化方面付出巨大努力，随着全球政策制定者将信息技术（IT）视为使医疗保健系统更安全、更实惠、更容易获得的一种手段，信息系统研究界利用其深入的知识来推进理论并影响实践和政策的难得而非凡的机会已经出现。尽管医疗信息技术（HIT）在提高医疗质量和降低成本方面具有巨大潜力，但要充分实现这一潜力，还需要克服重大挑战。在这篇评论中，我们调查了HIT的现有研究概况，以提供HIT研究的现状概述。然后，我们确定了值得进一步研究的三个主要领域：(1)HIT的设计、实施和有意义的使用；(2) HIT收益和影响的测量和量化；(3)拓展传统的HIT领域。我们讨论具体的研究问题，在每个领域，并建议适当的方法来接近他们。我们鼓励信息系统学者积极参与通过信息技术进行医疗保健转型的全球讨论。
As the United States expends extraordinary efforts toward the digitization of its health-care system, and as policy makers across the globe look to information technology (IT) as a means of making health-care systems safer, more affordable, and more accessible, a rare and remarkable opportunity has emerged for the information systems research community to leverage its in-depth knowledge to both advance theory and influence practice and policy. Although health IT (HIT) has tremendous potential to improve quality and reduce costs in healthcare, significant challenges need to be overcome to fully realize this potential. In this commentary, we survey the landscape of existing studies on HIT to provide an overview of the current status of HIT research. We then identify three major areas that warrant further research: (1) HIT design, implementation, and meaningful use; (2) measurement and quantification of HIT payoff and impact; and (3) extending the traditional realm of HIT. We discuss specific research questions in each domain and suggest appropriate methods to approach them. We encourage information systems scholars to become active participants in the global discourse on health-care transformation through IT.