The 12th Social Study of ICT workshop

Health Information Systems: Searching the Past - Finding a Future

The Information Systems and Innovation Group hosted its twelfth annual Social Study of ICT (SSIT12) workshop on 18 April 2012.

Health Information Systems are increasingly seen as being at the centre of the delivery of high quality healthcare and as key to the modernization or transformation of healthcare organizations. The last decade has seen many countries introducing initiatives aiming to bring more ICT into the front line of healthcare as well as promoting it as a basis for reengineering the back office.  Yet one of  the biggest, most ambitious initiative of them all, England’s National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT), has been largely abandoned by a new government as they adopt a different direction for policy.  Elsewhere, in Europe and beyond, we see a mixed picture of some progress and painful or puzzling setbacks. Meanwhile in the USA an even larger national initiative is in its early stages, committed to achieving ‘meaningful use’.

For health information systems this is perhaps a moment of transition, one where money is tight and strategic ambitions are shifting.

In this one day conference we explored two pressing contemporary issues:

• What lessons, both positive and negative, can be learned from recent experiences with innovative health information systems,
• How should we re-shape our future commitment to building health information systems, and our approaches to researching them?

 

Keynote speakers

 

Experience from the field: How health information systems arrive and how we research them

   
Looking forward: New Directions

 

The Information Systems and Innovation Group is a centre of expertise on information technology (IT) innovation and concomitant organisational and social change. For more information on the group please click here.