Integrating a New Dietetic Care Process in a Health Information System: A System and Process Analysis and Assessment

Gabriele Gäbler, Deborah Lycett and Walter Gall
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Gabriele Gäbler: Department of Science, Research and Development, Austrian Association of Dietitians, Grüngasse 9, 1050 Vienna, Austria
Deborah Lycett: Centre for Intelligent Healthcare, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK
Walter Gall: Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, Austria

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 5, 1-14

Abstract: Managing routinely collected data in health care and public health is important for evaluation of interventions and answering research questions using “real life” and ”big data”. In addition to the technical requirements of information systems, both standardized terminology and standardized processes are needed. The aim of this project was to analyse and assess the integration of standardized terminology and document templates for a dietetic care process (DCP) into the health information system (HIS) in a hospital in Austria. Using an action research approach, the DCP was analysed through four expert interviews and the integration into the HIS through two expert interviews with observations. Key strengths and weaknesses for the main criteria (“integration of the ICF catalogue”, “adaption of the document templates”, “adaption of the DCP”, and the “adaption of the user authorizations”) were presented and proposals for improvement given. The system and process integration of the DCP is possible, and the document templates can be adapted with the software currently in use. Although an increase in resources and finances required is to be expected initially, the integration of a standardized dietetic terminology in combination with a standardized process is likely to improve the quality of care and support outcomes management and research.

Keywords: standardized terminology; International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF)-Dietetics; nutrition and dietetics; clinical documentation; health information system; electronic health record (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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