@article{Flott:2016:10.2196/jmir.5047,
author = {Flott, K and Callahan, R and Darzi, A and Mayer, E},
doi = {10.2196/jmir.5047},
journal = {Journal of Medical Internet Research},
title = {A Patient-Centered Framework for Evaluating Digital Maturity of Health Services: A Systematic Review},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5047},
volume = {18},
year = {2016}
}

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AB  - Background: Digital maturity is the extent to which digital technologies are used as enablers to deliver a high-quality health service. Extensive literature exists about how to assess the components of digital maturity, but it has not been used to design a comprehensive framework for evaluation. Consequently, the measurement systems that do exist are limited to evaluating digital programs within one service or care setting, meaning that digital maturity evaluation is not accounting for the needs of patients across their care pathways.Objective: The objective of our study was to identify the best methods and metrics for evaluating digital maturity and to create a novel, evidence-based tool for evaluating digital maturity across patient care pathways.Methods: We systematically reviewed the literature to find the best methods and metrics for evaluating digital maturity. We searched the PubMed database for all papers relevant to digital maturity evaluation. Papers were selected if they provided insight into how to appraise digital systems within the health service and if they indicated the factors that constitute or facilitate digital maturity. Papers were analyzed to identify methodology for evaluating digital maturity and indicators of digitally mature systems. We then used the resulting information about methodology to design an evaluation framework. Following that, the indicators of digital maturity were extracted and grouped into increasing levels of maturity and operationalized as metrics within the evaluation framework.Results: We identified 28 papers as relevant to evaluating digital maturity, from which we derived 5 themes. The first theme concerned general evaluation methodology for constructing the framework (7 papers). The following 4 themes were the increasing levels of digital maturity: resources and ability (6 papers), usage (7 papers), interoperability (3 papers), and impact (5 papers). The framework includes metrics for each of these levels at each stag
AU  - Flott,K
AU  - Callahan,R
AU  - Darzi,A
AU  - Mayer,E
DO  - 10.2196/jmir.5047
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1439-4456
TI  - A Patient-Centered Framework for Evaluating Digital Maturity of Health Services: A Systematic Review
T2  - Journal of Medical Internet Research
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.5047
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/34053
VL  - 18
ER  - 

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