TY - CHAP
T1 - ICT for enabling the quality evaluation of health care services
T2 - A case study in a general hospital
AU - Pomares-Quimbaya, Alexandra
AU - González, Rafael A.
AU - Sierra, Alejandro
AU - Bustamante, Alvaro
AU - Daza, Julián Camilo
AU - García, Olga Milena
AU - Muñoz, Oscar
AU - Bohórquez, Wilson Ricardo
AU - García, Angel S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by IGI Global. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/10/19
Y1 - 2016/10/19
N2 - Medical practice, monitoring and control guidelines enable standardization, assessment and quality improvementin healthcare. This often implies collecting and analyzing electronic medical records (EMRs)in order to calculate compliance metrics and support evidence-based decision-making. However, forthese benefits to materialize a set of challenges must be overcome, including the complexity requiredto represent guidelines in such a way that compliance can be automatically determined with the aid ofsoftware; the combination of both structured and unstructured (narrative text) data; and cultural orpolitical barriers. In this chapter, we present a strategy to overcome these challenges using three casestudies in chronic disease for a developing country. As such, this work contributes an approach to enablethe use of ICT-supported medical guideline evaluation, in order to contribute to a more reliableand context-dependent way of improving healthcare in developing countries in particular.
AB - Medical practice, monitoring and control guidelines enable standardization, assessment and quality improvementin healthcare. This often implies collecting and analyzing electronic medical records (EMRs)in order to calculate compliance metrics and support evidence-based decision-making. However, forthese benefits to materialize a set of challenges must be overcome, including the complexity requiredto represent guidelines in such a way that compliance can be automatically determined with the aid ofsoftware; the combination of both structured and unstructured (narrative text) data; and cultural orpolitical barriers. In this chapter, we present a strategy to overcome these challenges using three casestudies in chronic disease for a developing country. As such, this work contributes an approach to enablethe use of ICT-supported medical guideline evaluation, in order to contribute to a more reliableand context-dependent way of improving healthcare in developing countries in particular.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85016000630&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4018/978-1-5225-1724-5.ch012
DO - 10.4018/978-1-5225-1724-5.ch012
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85016000630
SN - 1522517243
SN - 9781522517245
SP - 196
EP - 210
BT - Design, Development, and Integration of Reliable Electronic Healthcare Platforms
PB - IGI Global
ER -