From: Differentiating innovation priorities among stakeholder in hospital care
 | Size of investments | ||
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 | Large investments in time, money and human capital strategic | Medium investments | Small investments in time, money and human capital, strategic |
Large distance to patient care (concerning hospital and its surroundings financial functions, analytics (not patient level)) | • Beacon community program to improve nation’s health care | • (2) Infection control knowledge management | • (1) Full-text search engine for using narrative data in electronic health records |
• (2) Antiviral information management system | |||
• (2) National-level connectivity Electronic Patient File (EPF) | • Biased sample hospital-based area disease estimation | ||
• Electronic systems to collect client-level vaccination data | • Performance improvement systems | ||
• (3) Performance management systems | |||
• Visual diagrammatic language techniques to analyze work processes | |||
• Electronic logistics information systems | |||
• (2) Programming model to support operating room planning | |||
• Administrative IT | |||
Medium distance to patient care (concerning the professional and the hospital organization) | • (3) Interorganisational Electronic Health Record (Regional) | • eReferrals to specialists | • (1) Electronic prescriptions |
• Internet and electronic data mining in pathology | • PDAs | ||
• Picture archiving and communication system | • Communication systems in radiology | • (1) Blackberry as a clinical communication tool | |
• Emergency medicine information systems | • Electronic medical record system of outpatient workflow | • Voice recognition dictation | |
• (1) Clinical information systems (e.g., in radiology) | • Identification device technology to analyze work processes | • (2) Web-based distance learning | |
• (2) Patient data management system | • Computerized display of laboratory and radiology results | • Computerized ordering systems | |
• (2) Electronic patient records (third generation; registration and structured documentation, clinical support), within one institution | • Systems to analyze patient waiting and progress | • (3) Tablet as a clinical information tool | |
• Ambulatory referral management system (management of patient routes) | • (2) Computerized clinical decision support by desktop/laptop | ||
• (1) Inter-colleague consultation | |||
• Indoor positioning |  | ||
• Remote-controlled transfusion management | |||
• Automated medication-use process for prescribing and dispensing medication (including computerized prescriber order entry) | |||
• Electronic discharge systems | |||
• (3) Bar code medication administration technology | |||
• Computerized physician order entry for prescribing medication and recording medication administration | |||
• (2) Electronic health records within hospital | |||
Small distance to patient care (concerning interaction between the patient and care professional) | • (1) Planning software surgery | • (1) Remote patient management | • (4) Virtual consultations |
• (2) Computer-assisted surgery, using a robot | • (3) Telenursing (application of Telecare) | • (2)Voice link between elderly and caregivers (part of assisted living facility) | |
• (1) Three-dimensional ultrasonography | • (4) Telepathology (application of Telecare) | ||
• (3) Teleradiology (application of Telecare) | • (2) Patient safety alert system | ||
• (1) Smart Health Communities | • (1) Computerized clinical decision support by app on a PDA | ||
• (5) Self-testing and online automated management | • (2) E-triage | ||
• (1) Telemonitoring of heart failure (application of Telecare) | |||
• Virtual microscopy system | |||
• (1) Digital imaging | |||
• (5) Portal by hospital for appointments and reminders | |||
• (4) Portal by hospital for online consulting (mail, tweet, chat) | |||
• (4) Portal by hospital for peer-group-contact patients |