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Why Do Evaluations of eHealth Programs Fail? An Alternative Set of Guiding Principles

PLoS Medicine · 2010 · 293 citations · 26 references

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Public HealthHealth InformaticsElectronic Health RecordsHealth Technology AssessmentImplementation ScienceHealth Information EvaluationHealth Information System EvaluationHealth Program EvaluationHybrid Effectiveness-implementation StudiesSystematic ReviewTheory-based EvaluationAdoption EvaluationAdoption Of Health TechnologiesControlled Experiment DesignElectronic Health Record EvaluationEmpirical EvaluationEvaluationScientific Evidence EvaluationScientific Investigation

Abstract

Trisha Greenhalgh and Jill Russell discuss the relative merits of “scientific” and “social practice” approaches to evaluation and argue that eHealth evaluation is in need of a paradigm shift.

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