Using Normalisation Process Modelling to Aid Organisational Readiness for I.T

📄 Project Abstract

Despite the continual advancement in the technological field, and the importance of health to the population, there still remains a chasm between best practice and current practice in the healthcare domain. Unnecessary deaths due to poor decision making and wrong diagnoses are real, and surprisingly common. Loss of patient data, limited information access and sharing and slow diffusion of innovations being contributory causes. Better adoption of information technology (IT) could help to mitigate these. Whilst it is clear to many, that the answer lies in the numerous advantages that information systems and technology have to offer, large projects aimed at implementing these services fail spectacularly on a regular basis. The National Programme for IT has suffered vast amounts of public andmedia criticism and is hugely over budget and behind schedule, largely due to the, now acknowledged, incredible complexity of information systems in such a critical and rapidly changing environment. Ex...