With an aging population that suffers from comorbidity, healthcare is facing grand challenges. In order to meet the demand, digitalization is thought to be an opportunity. Digitalization of curative care, such as diagnostics and treatment, have been initiated and is today used and appreciated. Preventative care, on the other hand, has not been included in the digital adaptions to the same extent and there are few scientific studies within the area. Nonetheless, a further proactive care that meets patients and healthcare personnel are of interest to several actors. The Swedish Government has a vision that Sweden, in 2025, will be world leading within eHealth. For that to be possible, digital preventative care have to support and complete the preventative work that is performed today. The present study has investigated the attitude towards Connected Medical Devices for Prevention (CMDfP) within the primary care. By a mixed-methodology including questionnaires, the opinions of 24 health center personnel and 17 patients prescribed with Physical Activity on Prescription (PAP) were collected and analyzed. The results show that health center personnel are willing to prescribe connected eHealth devices for prevention and patients are willing to use the devices prescribed. Additionally, among the respondents there is a belief that CMDfP could facilitate in order to increase the adherence to PAP without any major impact on the personnel's workload. By digitalizing preventative care, it is possible that people will be able to live healthier and therefore not require care to the same extent as today. Reasons to the possible results are that digital tools within curative care have been shown to generate positive outcomes to chronically ill patients that utilize home care. Additionally, studies of preventative care have generated positive outcomes to the health of the population in several countries. It is therefore likely that the combination, digital preventative care, would be rapidly relished. These thoughts align with the positive results on attitudes of this study. Before CMDfP could be prescribed to patients, pilot studies have to be performed and new work routines including reimbursement models, have to be established within healthcare. These are all areas of future work within medical engineering. / Med en åldrande population som lider av samsjuklighet, står hälso- och sjukvården inför stora utmaningar. För att möta behovet är digitalisering en möjlighet. Digitalisering av åtgärdande vård, så som diagnostik och behandling, har redan påbörjats och är idag uppskattat. Preventiv vård har, å andra sidan, inte varit inkluderad i den digitala utvecklingen och därav saknas det vetenskapliga studier inom området. Dock är en mer proaktiv vård av stort intresse för flera aktörer. Sveriges regering har en vision att Sverige, år 2025, ska vara världsledande inom eHälsa. För att detta ska vara möjligt måste digital preventiv vård möta och komplettera det preventiva arbete som bedrivs idag. Denna studie har undersökt attityderna till Uppkopplade Medicinsktekniska Hjälpmedel för Prevention (UMHfP) bland primärvården. Genom en metod som inkluderat enkätundersökningar, inhämtades och analyserades attityden av 24 personer från personalen på vårdcentraler och 17 patienter med Fysisk Aktivitet på Recept (FaR). Resultaten visade att primärvårdspersonal är villiga att förskriva UMHfP och att patienter vill använda de hjälpmedlen som förskrivs. Dessutom har respondenterna tro att UMHfP kan underlätta att förbättra följsamheten till FaR utan att påverka personalens arbetsbörda nämnvärt. Genom att digitalisera den preventiva vården är det troligt att befolkningen kommer få ett hälsosammare leverne och därför inte behöva vård i samma utsträckning som idag. En anledning till detta är att digitala hjälpmedel för åtgärdande vård har visat sig vara positivt för kroniskt sjuka patienter som hemsjukvårdas. Dessutom har studier inom preventiv vård indikerat flera positiva konsekvenser för invånares hälsa världen över. Det är därför troligt att digitala hjälpmedel i kombination med preventivt arbete snabbt kommer bli uppskattat. Dessa spekulationer sammanfaller väl med det positiva resultatet från denna studie. Innan UMHfP kan förskrivas till patienter måste pilotstudier genomföras och nya arbetssätt inklusive betalningsmodeller måste införas i hälso- och sjukvården. Detta är kommande arbeten inom medicinsk teknik.

With the current challenges for the healthcare such as increased demand for care, financial and resource constraints along with rapid changes and complexity there is high believe in digital innovation and digitalisation to efficacy resources and aid in delivering a safer, more accessible and patient centred valuable care. There is a digitalisation that is ongoing, being used and implemented over several different areas of healthcare. Since healthcare can be seen as a complex adaptive system, there is a need to understand several agents. The aim is to gather more knowledge about perceptions within the physiotherapy staff and give recommendations and directions for improvements regarding digital innovation. Opinions about digital innovation have been gathered with open interviews and a semisystematic literature review with focus on physiotherapy. Too find subjective data the mixed method Q methodology was applied. The open interviews resulted in eight categories: digital innovation, digital innovation being used, digital innovation not used, management, obstacles, education, wishful thinking, applications and systems and associated opinions. The semi-systematic literature review showed on a rapid scientifically development, 25 articles was found and thematically analysed. 140 cited viewpoints and facts was merged with the results from the open interviews. Ten physiotherapists performed the q-sort consisting of 25 statements. Three factors were found. Interpreted as digital innovation optimism & patient oriented, digital innovation scepticism & management oriented and digital innovation sceptical optimism. Video-call technique is strongly encouraged by factor one contrary to factor two. Integrity is the major conflicting viewpoint between the factors. The result shows that gender can affect if a physiotherapist is either optimistic or sceptical to digital innovation. Using existing models such as UTAUT could improve acceptance about digital innovation. Education is perceived as important among all factors. Nine participants responded on baseline questions showing low knowledge of the term mHealth and little communication with IT departments.

The aim behind this study was to observe and understand barriers to access the eHealth system equally. The study was conducted in Stockholm based on qualitative data in which semi- structured interviews were conducted among 15 interviewees from different localities of Stockholm. The findings from the collected data revealed that language barriers, lack of knowledge about digital literacy, unawareness of Swedish healthcare services, psychological and social barriers, safety and privacy concerns, and the lack of an e-identification are all major barriers to accessing the eHealth system. From the data, it has also been observed that the main causes of the aforementioned hurdles are based on varied socioeconomic levels, literacy conditions of an individual, cultural background, and age. Another important observation shows that highly qualified people with limited language abilities have a difficult time using eHealth services.

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Research in risk awareness has been relatively neglected in the health informatics literature, which tends largely to examine project managers’ perspectives of risk awareness; very few studies explicitly address the perspectives held by senior executives such as directors. Another limitation evident in the current risk literature is that studies are often based on American data and/or they are restricted to American culture. Both factors highlight the need to examine how senior executives (i.e., directors) who oversee or direct eHealth projects in Canada perceive risk awareness. This research explores and discusses the perspectives of risk awareness (i.e., identification, analysis, and prioritization) held by directors and project managers who implement Canadian eHealth projects. Semi-structured interviews with nine directors and project managers uncovered six key distinctions in these two groups’ awareness of risk. First, all project managers valued transparency over anonymity, whereas directors believed that an anonymous reporting system for communicating risks had merit. Secondly, most directors emphasized the importance of evidence-based planning and decision making when balancing risks and opportunities, an aspect none of the project managers voiced. Thirdly, while project managers noted that the level of risk tolerance may evolve from being risk-averse to risk-neutral, directors believed that risk tolerance evolved toward risk-seeking. Directors also noted the importance of employing risk officers, a view that was not shared by project managers. Directors also believed the risk of too little end-user engagement and change management was the most important risk, whereas project managers ranked it as the least important. Finally, when directors and project managers were asked to identify and define the root cause(s) of eHealth risks, directors identified the complexity of health care industry, while project managers attributed it to political pressure and a lack of resources where eHealth projects are concerned. This research proposes that the varied perspectives of risk awareness held by directors and project managers must be considered and integrated to properly align expectations and build partnerships for successful eHealth project outcomes. Understanding risk awareness offers a means to systematically identify and analyze the complex nature of eHealth projects by embracing uncertainties, thereby enabling forward thinking (i.e., staying one step ahead of risks) and the ability to prevent avoidable risks and seize opportunities. / Graduate / 0723 / 0489 / 0454 / randbpark@gmail.com

Hintergrund: Im Umgang mit einer chronischen Erkrankung suchen Patienten im Internet oft nach Erfahrungsberichten von anderen Betroffenen. Internetseiten mit Patientenerfahrungen können Unterstützung bieten, das Gesundheitsverhalten beeinflussen und Entscheidungshilfe in medizinischen Fragen sein. Eine Evaluation derartiger Internetangebote ist aber notwendig, um ihre tatsächliche Qualität und den Nutzen für Patienten bewerten zu können. Exemplarisch sollte in einer Querschnittsstudie untersucht werden, wie Patienten mit einer chronischen Erkrankung das Internetportal www.krankheitserfahrungen.de bewerten. Methode: Insgesamt 119 Personen mit einer chronischen Erkrankung nahmen an der Studie teil. Sie beurteilten die Internetseite mit dem eHealth Impact Questionnaire (eHIQ). Das Nutzerverhalten der Teilnehmer wurde durch Logfiles aufgezeichnet. Zusätzlich wurden soziodemographische Merkmale und die gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität mit dem SF-12 erhoben. Ergebnisse: Frauen neigten eher dazu, Krankheitserfahrungen im Internet mit anderen zu teilen (p=,015). Im eHIQ zeigte sich eine positive Bewertung der Internetseite, besonders im Bereich Information und Darstellung. Dies bestätigte auch das Nutzerverhalten der Teilnehmer. Die Hälfte verweilte länger auf der Webseite als von der Studienleitung vorgegeben. Aufgerufen wurden besonders Webseiten-Inhalte, die zur eigenen Erkrankung passten. Teilnehmer mit einem höheren Bildungsabschluss sahen sich mehr Interviewausschnitte (p=,022) und Thementexte (p=,006) an. Prädiktoren für eine positive Bewertung der Webseite waren eine offenere Haltung zum Teilen von Krankheitserfahrungen im Internet (OR=1,039; p=,004) und ein höherer Bildungsabschluss (OR=2,100; p=,098). Schlussfolgerungen: Internetseiten wie krankheitserfahrungen.de scheinen dem Bedürfnis von Patienten nach Erfahrungsaustausch im Internet gerecht zu werden. Die gewählte Präsentationsmethode der Inhalte entspricht offensichtlich eher dem Interesse nach Informationsrecherche unter Patienten mit höherem Bildungsabschluss. Andere potentielle Nutzer würden wahrscheinlich eine größere Interaktivität – statt Informationen – bevorzugen. Die hier vorgelegte Evaluation eines Internetportals mit Patientenerfahrungen belegt exemplarisch den Nutzen und zeigt konkrete Verbesserungspotentiale auf.

2017 became the beginning of the Childbirth Crisis of Sweden, as a result of underbudgeting and understaffing, creating an environment where patient safety and availability was questioned. Additionally, information and communication technology rapidly take a larger role in the field of healthcare, nourishing new solutions for old processes. This explorative research was conducted to answer how information and communication technologies, and communication techniques, are used and could be used to provide safe care for patients. This study was conducted with 10 participants working as medical staff at a Swedish neonatal care unit. The medical staff who participated consisted of registered nurses, certified pediatric nurses, pediatric nursing assistants, and one nursing assistant. The approach of this research was through system thinking in the tradition of soft systems thinking. The data collection was performed with a combination of semi-structured interviews and card sorting. The collected data were processed, organized, and interpreted with the three c’s of analysis and thematic analysis. The results of this study are complemented by rich pictures. The empirical findings of this study describe a neonatal care unit known at its hospital to be the one unit holding the largest number of different devices. The medical staff at the researched NCU are using information and communication technology in a combination together with specific communication techniques, to create an understanding of their patients’ conditions. The study connects a state of safe care to the training and knowledge of the information and communication technologies, and communication techniques used at the neonatal care unit. The combination of the information and communication technologies, and communication techniques used at the NCU are vital tools, conclusive to the medical staff when providing safe care for patients. This study provides an insight into one Swedish neonatal care unit, based on the interpretations of its medical staff.

Bakgrund: I Sverige pågår för närvarande stora projekt för att utforma och införa framtidens vårdinformationssystem. Dessa system utvecklas för att effektivisera hälso- och sjukvårdens processer och IT-miljöer. Elektroniska patientjournalsystem är den mest använda typen av vårdinformationssystem. Andra exempel är system för prover och svar, patientadministration och läkemedelsförskrivning. Trots att vårdinformationssystem har visat sig kunna bidra till ökad patientsäkerhet och kvalitet har implementering av nya system i hälso- och sjukvården en historia av att ofta misslyckas. Enligt ramverket Technology, People, Organizations and Macroenvironmental factors (TPOM), påverkar ett antal områden hur väl implementering av vårdinformationssystem faller ut.  Sjuksköterskor är den största legitimerade yrkeskåren inom hälso- och sjukvård. De ansvarar för omvårdnaden av en individ och hela dennes situation vilket bidrar till att sjuksköterskor är de som använder vårdinformationssystem mest frekvent. För att bidra till lyckad utveckling, implementering och förvaltning av vårdinformationssystem behöver sjuksköterskors upplevelser av utmaningar och möjligheter med vårdinformationssystem och vårddokumentation beskrivas.   Syfte: Studiens syfte är att beskriva sjuksköterskors upplevelser av utmaningar och möjligheter med vårdinformationssystem och vårddokumentation utifrån tekniska, personliga, organisatoriska och samhälleliga områden.  Metod: Kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med tio legitimerade sjuksköterskor från olika verksamheter. Analys av insamlad data skedde genom kvalitativ innehållsanalys med deduktiv ansats utifrån huvudkategorierna i ramverket TPOM.  Resultat: Utmaningar och möjligheter inom områdena teknik, person, organisation och samhälle identifierades och beskrevs. Totalt tio subkategorier identifierades under huvudkategorierna. Respondenternas upplevelser av liknande utmaningar och möjligheter oavsett arbetsplats och vårdinformationssystem tyder på att resultatet kan appliceras och tas i beaktande vid utveckling, implementering och förvaltning oavsett vårdinformationssystem. / Background: Currently in Sweden, there are a number of ongoing extensive projects aiming towards development and adoption of futures’ health information technology (HIT). These systems are formed to make the processes and IT environment of health care more effective. Electronic health records are the most used type of health information technology. Other examples are systems for laboratory testing, patient administration and prescription of medications. Even though HIT has proven to contribute to effectiveness and quality of care, the implementations of such systems has a history of failing. According to the Technology, People, Organizations and Macroenvironmental factors framework (TPOM), a number of dimensions has an impact to determine the success of HIT implementation.  Nurses are the largest group of registered health care practitioners in Sweden. Nursing care include caring for the individual in whole, which leads to nurses extensive, and frequent use of HIT. To contribute to successful development, implementation and continuous management of HIT, nurses’ experiences of challenges and possibilities in HIT and documentation must be described further.  Aim: This study aims to describe nurses’ experiences of challenges and possibilities in Health information technology and documentation in the perspective of Technology, People, Organizations and Macroenvironmental factors.  Method: Qualitative, semistructured interviews was conducted with ten registered nurses coming from different types of care. Data was analyzed based on deductive approached qualitative content analysis, using the TPOM framework.  Results: Challenges and possibilites within technology, people, organizations and macroenvironmental domains were identified and described. A total of ten subcategories were identified. The respondendts experienced similar challenges and possibilites, regardless of workplace and health information technology. This implicates that the result of this study might be considered in development, implementation and management of HIT.