A Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective of Health Information Technology Implementation

Connections, Communication and Collaboration in Healthcare’s Complex Adaptive Systems; Comment on “Using Complexity and Network Concepts to Inform Healthcare Knowledge Translation”

A more sophisticated understanding of the unpredictable, disorderly and unstable aspects of healthcare organisations is developing in the knowledge translation (KT) literature. In an article published in this journal, Kitson et al introduced a new model for KT in healthcare based on complexity theory. The Knowledge Translation Complexity Network Model (KTCNM) provides a fresh perspective by mak...

Proposing an Appropriate Architecture for Decision Support Systems in the Field of Complex Chronic Care: Micro-Services Based Software Architecture in Kidney Transplant Care

Introduction: Development and successfully implementation of knowledge based clinical decision support system (KBCDSS) in kidney transplantation (KT) could support decision-making, reduce cost and improve quality of care. For practical use of these systems, however, many challenges have to be met.  Besides to well-recognized challenges of design and implementation of information systems in heal...

Proposing an Appropriate Architecture for Decision Support Systems in the Field of Complex Chronic Care: Micro-Services Based Software Architecture in Kidney Transplant Care

Introduction: Development and successfully implementation of knowledge based clinical decision support system (KBCDSS) in kidney transplantation (KT) could support decision-making, reduce cost and improve quality of care. For practical use of these systems, however, many challenges have to be met.  Besides to well-recognized challenges of design and implementation of information systems in heal...

Evaluation of Hospital Information Systems Data Quality in Educational Hospitals of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences form Users’ Perspective

Using Complexity to Simplify Knowledge Translation; Comment on “Using Complexity and Network Concepts to Inform Healthcare Knowledge Translation”

Putting health theories, research and knowledge into practice is a challenge referred to as the knowledge-toaction gap. Knowledge translation (KT), and its related concepts of knowledge mobilization, implementation science and research impact, emerged to mitigate this gap. While the social interaction view of KT has gained currency, scholars have not easily made a link between KT and the concep...