• The subject areas of the network
• Pervasive Healthcare
• Management and effect measurement
• Shared care
• Software and information architecture

Vision

This group of experts will contribute to the development of more expedient management tools for the implementation and operation of comprehensive IT systems within the Danish health sector. Furthermore, this group of specialists will also help ensure a better utilization and use of new technologies.

Purpose

• To assemble Danish researchers, companies and providers health services with a knowledge of management and effect measurement
• To establish a general view of the methods of effect measurement in Demark and abroad
• To uncover the need for education (e.g. in IT governance and support processes)
• To recruit more researchers for this field
• To create greater cohesion between initiatives in IT governance, work processes/business process reengineering and software architecture.

Subject area

Effect measurement is about measuring processes. It is of crucial importance to decision-makers in the health sector and to companies developing technology for this sector. This important role unfolds throughout the process from the planning of a new IT application to its implementation at a hospital for example. It also unfolds at various organizational levels, ranging from management to the employees who are involved in the planning and implementation of the IT application.

The purpose is to identify the effects that have arisen due to the initiatives that have been launched in connection to the utilization of new IT solutions. These effects can be attached to efficiency, quality, patient care etc. The effect assessment can be based on the goals and strategies that have been formulated for the organization. Or it can have a wider focus and seek to identify all the effects that may arise, planned or unintentional.

Effect assessment naturally includes the implementation process. The effects are bound to depend on the way the implementation is handled. It is therefore only natural to gather knowledge of this process and make it available to health organizations that are about to implement similar solutions.