The attitudes of medical practitioners towards the actionability of performance data Online publication date: Wed, 27-Jul-2022
by Anna Janssen; Tim Shaw
International Journal of Electronic Healthcare (IJEH), Vol. 12, No. 3, 2022
Abstract: The collection and feedback of electronic health data has been increasing over the last decade. In spite of the large amount of data collected in the health sector, significant questions remain about the actionability of this data for key stakeholders such as health professionals. This study aimed to understand the attitudes of specialist medical practitioners towards the collection of electronic health data, and its feedback for practice reflection. Interviews were conducted with medical practitioners to answer this aim. Data from these interviews was analysed by researchers familiar with undertaking qualitative analysis of interview data. Findings indicate specialist medical practitioners are interested in having greater access to their clinical data. However, in order to make the data actionable to clinicians simply presenting the data is not sufficient. Digital technologies for presenting health data need to scaffold the presentation of data in order to make it actionable by end-users in the healthcare.
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