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Access patterns to a website on healthcare IT failure
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| Title: | Access patterns to a website on healthcare IT failure |
| Authors: | Silverstein, Scot M.
Chen, Yunan
Wania, Christine E. |
| Keywords: | Medical informatics
Social informatics
Sociotechnical issues
Healthcare information technology
Electronic medical records
Project management |
| Issue Date: | 17-Apr-2007 |
| Publisher: | Drexel University. College of Information Science and Technology. |
| Series/Report no.: | IST Research Day 2007 posters |
| Abstract: | Organizational and human factors issues associated with healthcare IT have led to project
difficulties and failures. Detailed case accounts might improve knowledge sharing
between healthcare organizations on lessons learned and best implementation practices.
We conducted a study of access patterns to a website created by our first author that
explicitly addresses the issue of health IT failure via highly detailed case accounts in an
‘anonymized’ format. We found that our website is one of few relevant sites that is
retrieved via major search engine queries on “healthcare IT failure” or related concepts,
and we hypothesize that “hits” on our website may reflect a significant portion of the
demand for information on this issue. We then studied the demographics and queries used
by viewers of our website via a public website-tracking utility (no personally-identifiable
information was obtained). We found that demand for information on healthcare IT
difficulty and failure via the Web is ongoing by searchers of a variety of demographics,
and we believe the demand is largely unmet. The medical informatics community can
contribute to filling this gap. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1860/1580 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Day Posters (IST)
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