User Attitudes and Support in Health Information Systems Implementation - the case of the Danish Sundhedsplatformen

Emma Møller Jeppesen, Katrine Klee Olsen, Alexander Richter, Shahper Richter

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    Abstract

    The implementation of Health Information Systems (HIS) has been heralded as bringing numerous benefits to the healthcare sector. When implementing a HIS, the attitudes of the various users (nurses, doctors, admin people) towards the HIS can be influenced by a number of different factors. User support
    has proved to be one of the most important ones. Most recently, Sundhedsplatformen, one of the largest public HIS in Denmark, is being implemented in 18 hospitals across Zealand. In this context, we conducted 21 interviews at one of the major hospitals, Rigshospitalet, and qualitatively coded
    them. This allowed us to explore three archetypical groups of user attitudes toward Sundhedsplatformen: ‘Dedicated’, ‘Frustrated’ and ‘Despondent’. Further, we identified manifestations of insufficient user support on different levels. We clustered these elements into three levels of support: ‘Individual’,
    ‘Technological’ and ‘Organisational’. Reflecting on the manifestations of insufficient user support enables us to achieve a nuanced and holistic understanding of user support as an important adoption factor and further how user attitudes can be addressed when implementing HIS.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number105
    JournalProceedings / European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
    ISSN0000-0034
    Publication statusPublished - 2018

    Keywords

    • Health Information Systems
    • User Attitudes
    • User Support Levels
    • Sundhedsplatformen Implementation
    • Qualitative Analysis

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