TY  - JOUR
AU  - McCarthy, Stephen
AU  - O'Raghallaigh, Paidi
AU  - Woodworth, Simon
AU  - Lim, Yoke Yin
AU  - Kenny, Louise C
AU  - Adam, Frédéric
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/9/17
TI  - Embedding the Pillars of Quality in Health Information Technology Solutions Using “Integrated Patient Journey Mapping” (IPJM): Case Study
JO  - JMIR Hum Factors
SP  - e17416
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
KW  - health information technology
KW  - health care quality
KW  - data analytics
KW  - multidisciplinary research
KW  - mobile phone
AB  - Background: Health information technology (HIT) and associated data analytics offer significant opportunities for tackling some of the more complex challenges currently facing the health care sector. However, to deliver robust health care service improvements, it is essential that HIT solutions be designed by parallelly considering the 3 core pillars of health care quality: clinical effectiveness, patient safety, and patient experience. This requires multidisciplinary teams to design interventions that both adhere to medical protocols and achieve the tripartite goals of effectiveness, safety, and experience. Objective: In this paper, we present a design tool called Integrated Patient Journey Mapping (IPJM) that was developed to assist multidisciplinary teams in designing effective HIT solutions to address the 3 core pillars of health care quality. IPJM is intended to support the analysis of requirements as well as to promote empathy and the emergence of shared commitment and understanding among multidisciplinary teams. Methods: A 6-month, in-depth case study was conducted to derive findings on the use of IPJM during Learning to Evaluate Blood Pressure at Home (LEANBH), a connected health project that developed an HIT solution for the perinatal health context. Data were collected from over 700 hours of participant observations and 10 semistructured interviews. Results: The findings indicate that IPJM offered a constructive tool for multidisciplinary teams to work together in designing an HIT solution, through mapping the physical and emotional journey of patients for both the current service and the proposed connected health service. This allowed team members to consider the goals, tasks, constraints, and actors involved in the delivery of this journey and to capture requirements for the digital touchpoints of the connected health service. Conclusions: Overall, IPJM facilitates the design and implementation of complex HITs that require multidisciplinary participation. 
SN  - 2292-9495
UR  - http://humanfactors.jmir.org/2020/3/e17416/
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/17416
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32940610
DO  - 10.2196/17416
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/17416
ER  -