Paper Info
Title
Achieving veracity: A study of the development and use of an information system for data analysis in preventive healthcare.
Abstract
Within healthcare, information systems are increasingly developed to enable automatic analysis of the large amounts of data that are accumulated. A prerequisite for the practical use of such data analysis is the veracity of the output, that is, that the analysis is clinically valid. Whereas most research focuses on the technical configuration and clinical precision of data analysis systems, the purpose of this article is to investigate how veracity is achieved in practice. Based on a study of a project in Denmark aimed at developing an algorithm for stratification of citizens in preventive healthcare, this article confirms that achieving veracity requires close attention to the clinical validity of the algorithm. It also concludes, however, that the veracity in practice hinges critically on the citizens' ability to report high-quality data and the ability of the health professionals to interpret the outcome in the context of existing care practices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1177/1460458218796665
HEALTH INFORMATICS JOURNAL
Keywords
Field
DocType
clinical decision-making,data analysis,preventive healthcare,qualitative study,risk behavior change
Health care,Information system,Clinical decision making,Knowledge management,Preventive healthcare,Qualitative research,Medicine
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25.0
SP3.0
1460-4582
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Troels Mønsted1274.66