A Bounded Health Information Technology System Design Approach to Support Community-Based Care Delivery

Liam Peyton, Jaspreet Bindra, Aladdin Baarah, Austin Chamney and Craig Kuziemsky
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Liam Peyton: School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Jaspreet Bindra: Faculty of Graduate and Post Doctoral Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Aladdin Baarah: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Austin Chamney: Department of Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Craig Kuziemsky: Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC), 2015, vol. 5, issue 1, 32-45

Abstract: Health information technology (HIT) offers great potential for supporting healthcare delivery, particularly collaborative care delivery that is provided across multiple settings and providers. To date much of HIT design has focused on digitizing data or processes on a departmental or healthcare provider basis. However, this bounded approach has not scaled well for supporting community based care across disparate providers or settings because of the lack of boundaries (e.g. disprate data and processes) that exist in community based care. Cloud computing approaches that leverage mobile form applications for developing integrated HIT solutions have the potential to support collaborative healthcare delivery in the community. However, to date there is a shortage of methods that describe how to develop integrated cloud computing solutions to support community based care delivery. In particular there is a need for methods that identify how to incorporate boundaries into cloud computing systems design. This paper uses a three year case study of the design of the Palliative Care Information System (PAL-IS) to provide system design insight on cloud computing approaches that leverage mobile forms applications to support community care management.

Date: 2015
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