TY - GEN
T1 - Achieving greater consistency in Telehealth project evaluations to improve organisational learning
AU - Maeder, Anthony
AU - Gray, Kathleen
AU - Borda, Ann
AU - Poultney, Nathan
AU - Basilakis, Jim
N1 - CC BY-NC. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Telehealth pilot projects and trial implementations are numerous but are often not fully evaluated, preventing construction of a sound evidence base and so limiting their adoption. We describe the need for a generic Telehealth project evaluation framework, within which evaluation is undertaken based on existing health systems performance indicators, using appropriately chosen measures. We provide two case studies explaining how this approach could be applied, in Australian and Canadian settings. It is argued that this framework type of approach to evaluation offers better potential for incorporating the learnings from resultant evaluations into business decisions by 'learning organisations', through alignment with organisational performance considerations.
AB - Telehealth pilot projects and trial implementations are numerous but are often not fully evaluated, preventing construction of a sound evidence base and so limiting their adoption. We describe the need for a generic Telehealth project evaluation framework, within which evaluation is undertaken based on existing health systems performance indicators, using appropriately chosen measures. We provide two case studies explaining how this approach could be applied, in Australian and Canadian settings. It is argued that this framework type of approach to evaluation offers better potential for incorporating the learnings from resultant evaluations into business decisions by 'learning organisations', through alignment with organisational performance considerations.
KW - benefits realisation
KW - health systems performance
KW - learning organisation
KW - project evaluation
KW - Telehealth
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937119710&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-505-0-84
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-505-0-84
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 25980709
AN - SCOPUS:84937119710
SN - 9781614995043
VL - 209
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 84
EP - 94
BT - Global Telehealth 2015: Integrating Technology and Information for Better Healthcare
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 4th International Conference on Global Telehealth, GT 2015
Y2 - 29 May 2015 through 30 May 2015
ER -