Infinicare framework for integrated understanding of health-related activities in clinical and daily-living contexts

Mustafa Ozkaynak, Rupa Valdez, Richard J. Holden and Jason Weiss

Health Systems, 2018, vol. 7, issue 1, 66-78

Abstract: Clinical and consumer health informatics interventions promise to transform health care, yielding higher quality, more accessible care at a lower cost. However, the potential of these interventions cannot be achieved if they are developed and rolled out in a disconnected way: clinic-based systems typically do not interface with home-based systems that capture patient-generated health-related data. The fragmentation between these interventions severely limits the benefits of all interventions; given that health care is a continuum between clinical and daily-living settings. We introduce the Infinicare framework, which posits that clinical health-related activities “shape” daily-living-based health-related activities and, conversely, that daily-living-based health-related activities “inform” activities in clinics. Non-alignment of activities across these diverse contexts yields systemic gaps. Workflow studies that capture health-related activities and characterise gaps between clinical and daily-living contexts can inform the design and implementation of gap-filling, collaborative health information technologies. To inform these technologies, workflow studies should be patient-oriented, include both clinical and daily-living settings and subsume both process and structure variables. Novel methodologies are needed to effectively and efficiently capture health-related activities across both clinical and daily-living settings and their contexts. Guidelines for applying these recommendations in developing collaborative health information technologies are provided.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2017.1390060

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