Professionalism of Information Management in Health Care: Development and Validation of the Construct and Its Measurement

Thye, Johannes; Esdar, Moritz; Liebe, Jan-David; Jahn, Franziska; Winter, Alfred; Hübner, Ursula

doi:10.1055/s-0040-1712465

Cited by 8 publications

(19 citation statements)

References 31 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The last article by Thye et al described the development of an instrument to measure the professionalism of HIM professionals [ 17 ]. The researchers found that HIM professional activities comprised strategic, tactical, and operational information management.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Findings from the 2021 Yearbook Section on Health Information Management

Bloomrosen¹,

Berner

2021

Yearb Med Inform

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Objectives: To summarize the recent literature and research and present a selection of the best papers published in 2020 in the field of Health Information Management (HIM) and Health Informatics. Methods: A systematic review of the literature for the IMIA Yearbook HIM section was performed by the two section editors with the help of a medical librarian. We searched bibliographic databases for HIM-related papers using both MeSH headings and keywords in titles and abstracts. A shortlist of the fifteen best candidate papers was first selected by section editors before being peer-reviewed by independent external reviewers. Results: The three major themes of Health Information Exchange (transmitting, sharing, and accessing patient health-related data and information) (HIE), Data Quality, and Privacy and Security make up 80% of the fifteen papers, with individual papers on personal health records, information governance and the professionalism of the HIM field. Conclusions: Traditional HIM concerns about HIM practice and workforce as well as issues about the data in electronic health records (EHRs) including data quality, coding, health information exchange among entities within the healthcare systems and privacy and confidentiality continue to be a large part of the HIM research literature. Although there was little research applying these themes to pandemic concerns, HIM professionals have the expertise to make ccontributions to public health informatics research and this research would benefit from their involvement.

show abstract

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Findings from the 2021 Yearbook Section on Health Information Management

Bloomrosen¹,

Berner

2021

Yearb Med Inform

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…• HIT information management encompasses the full spectrum of strategic, tactical, and operational management tasks to build and operate an organization's information system [34,36]. Management practices are deemed to be essential preconditions for realizing the potential of HIT [37], especially those executed by the information technology (IT) department [38,39] and those that involve systematic clinical user participation [40,41].…”

Section: Hit Quality and Innovation Capabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…HIT information management was operationalized using 2 constructs. First, we applied a construct that captures the degree of professionalism of information management (PIM) in health care in terms of the regularity of 15 management key tasks and practices, as proposed by Thye et al [36]. As PIM consists of 3 latent and correlated subcomponents (strategic, tactical, and operational information management), we incorporated it as a reflective higher order model with PIM as the higher order construct and the 3 subcomponents as the lower order constructs using the repeated indicator approach [68].…”

Section: Hit Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to the model, HIT workflow support depends on professional information management, that is, professionally conceptualized and performed activities at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels, as has been conjectured by Winter et al [34] and empirically conceptualized by Thye et al [36]. Only the HIT workflow support that is managed in an orderly and professional manner by the IT department can work properly regarding data and information provision, IT functions in place, their integration with one another, and the ability to distribute the data and the information to the point of care.…”

Section: The Inner Workings Of Hit Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

The Effect of Innovation Capabilities of Health Care Organizations on the Quality of Health Information Technology: Model Development With Cross-sectional Data

Esdar¹,

Hübner²,

Thye³

et al. 2021

JMIR Med Inform

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background Large health organizations often struggle to build complex health information technology (HIT) solutions and are faced with ever-growing pressure to continuously innovate their information systems. Limited research has been conducted that explores the relationship between organizations’ innovative capabilities and HIT quality in the sense of achieving high-quality support for patient care processes. Objective The aim of this study is to explain how core constructs of organizational innovation capabilities are linked to HIT quality based on a conceptual sociotechnical model on innovation and quality of HIT, called the IQHIT model, to help determine how better information provision in health organizations can be achieved. Methods We designed a survey to assess various domains of HIT quality, innovation capabilities of health organizations, and context variables and administered it to hospital chief information officers across Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Data from 232 hospitals were used to empirically fit the model using partial least squares structural equation modeling to reveal associations and mediating and moderating effects. Results The resulting empirical IQHIT model reveals several associations between the analyzed constructs, which can be summarized in 2 main insights. First, it illustrates the linkage between the constructs measuring HIT quality by showing that the professionalism of information management explains the degree of HIT workflow support (R²=0.56), which in turn explains the perceived HIT quality (R²=0.53). Second, the model shows that HIT quality was positively influenced by innovation capabilities related to the top management team, the information technology department, and the organization at large. The assessment of the model’s statistical quality criteria indicated valid model specifications, including sufficient convergent and discriminant validity for measuring the latent constructs that underlie the measures of HIT quality and innovation capabilities. Conclusions The proposed sociotechnical IQHIT model points to the key role of professional information management for HIT workflow support in patient care and perceived HIT quality from the viewpoint of hospital chief information officers. Furthermore, it highlights that organizational innovation capabilities, particularly with respect to the top management team, facilitate HIT quality and suggests that health organizations establish this link by applying professional information management practices. The model may serve to stimulate further scientific work in the field of HIT adoption and diffusion and to provide practical guidance to managers, policy makers, and educators on how to achieve better patient care using HIT.

show abstract

“…To contribute to this knowledge gap, this article studies KM capabilities and competences and elaborates this critical aspect of KM with an aim to better understand what competences are needed to support organizational performance and renewal. In this article we complement the organizational focused view of KM with health informatics (HI) literature, which offers various frameworks for mapping HI competences (e.g., Jidkov et al, 2019;Thye et al, 2020). The article answers to the following research questions: 1) what is meant by KM competences and skills, and 2) what are the competence needs related to KM in management of health and social care?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge Management Competencies in Health and Social Care

Laihonen

Saranto

2022

ECKM

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Knowledge management literature has thoroughly discussed the aims and objectives of managing knowledge, recognized critical success factors of knowledge processes, analyzed knowledge creation, transfer and sharing, and even some indications of the effects of knowledge management have been evidenced. However, despite skills, competences, and employees’ knowledge and experience are among the recognized success factors, discussions on competence needs of effective knowledge management are lacking. To contribute to this knowledge gap, this article studies knowledge management competences with an aim to elaborate this critical component of organizational performance and renewal. The special focus of the article is on the management of health and social care and the article brings together two distinct disciplines, knowledge management and health informatics, to suggest a novel way to approach KM capabilities and competences in the given context. Based on the literature and empirical data gathered with two surveys targeted to health informatics and knowledge management practitioners in health and social care the article concludes that: 1) It is difficult to separate the discussion on competence needs from the discussions concerning the information content and tools of data management. The latter aspects dominate the debate and determine and limit in many ways the discussions on knowledge management, its nature, content, and people participating to these discussions, and 2) knowledge management in health and social care focuses extensively on issues of data management and decision-making support.

show abstract

Professionalism of Information Management in Health Care: Development and Validation of the Construct and Its Measurement

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Findings from the 2021 Yearbook Section on Health Information Management

Findings from the 2021 Yearbook Section on Health Information Management

The Effect of Innovation Capabilities of Health Care Organizations on the Quality of Health Information Technology: Model Development With Cross-sectional Data

Knowledge Management Competencies in Health and Social Care

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About