Research Handbook on Health Information Systems

This Research Handbook provides comprehensive explanations and examples of theoretical frameworks and practical methods to support the design and conduct of high quality health information systems research.The Research Handbook brings together diverse disciplinary perspectives from an array of international expert contributors, including business and economics, engineering and public policy, psychology and sociology. It offers ways to inspect health information systems through different lenses, such as activity theory, affordance theory, cognitive-socio-technical theory, complexity theory, implementation science, and trust. It describes the use of specialised techniques in health information systems research, such as ethnography, patient journey mapping, participatory methods, process mining, and social media analysis.The Research Handbook on Health Information Systems is an indispensable resource for academics and students of information science and data science who have a particular interest in technological transformation of health care, digital health management, and health service innovation. Researchers in clinical fields, public health, health administration and health informatics will similarly benefit from this important resource.