A Systems Theory Approach for Information Systems Planning in Hospitals
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Serval ID
serval:BIB_EEAE32939EA3
Type
Inproceedings: an article in a conference proceedings.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
A Systems Theory Approach for Information Systems Planning in Hospitals
Title of the conference
Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI2014)
Address
Paderborn, Germany
ISBN
978-3-00-045311-3
Publication state
Published
Issued date
02/2014
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Language
english
Abstract
The health care sector still faces a large gap between the promoted and empirically demonstrated benefits of eHealth technologies. Medical departments in hospitals often build their own isolated software tools, resulting in silo applications with a low level of interoperability and in redundant, disorganized and inaccessible medical information. Based on a literature review, this paper derives design requirements for hospital's IS architectures. It argues that the Viable System Model, which has its origins in systems theory and cybernetics, provides a suitable basis to design an interoperable and scalable architecture for health information systems. Based on a design-oriented research approach, we develop a systems theory approach for IS planning in hospitals, which has been applied in a field study and evaluated in expert interviews. The evaluation confirms systems theory approach's appropriateness to cope with the specificities of Swiss hospitals and reveals additional avenues for refining the method.
Keywords
hospitals, viable systems model, enterprise architecture, IS planning
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