Arthur Verkerke<\/p>\n
In a digitalizing world, all kind of healthcare services are adopting more and more information systems. In the youth health care, this process is also going on. The fact that (1) children are not (yet) capable of standing up for their own rights and that (2) the maturation of children can be seriously harmed when information about treatments is misused makes this a special case in comparison to the digitisation of \u2018regular\u2019 healthcare received by adults. Since the involved people are in this case mainly the doctors providing youth care and the children receiving it, the focus of the social-cultural impacts will be mainly on these groups. However, in order to provide useful insights, the implications for the designers of information systems related to youth e-health care will also shortly be mentioned.<\/p>\n
Therefore this paper focusses on the social-cultural impacts of two aspects of e-health; (1) the impacts of the implementation of electronic patient records and (2) digitalisation of the administration in the youth care. After a small introduction to the main concepts, first the impacts for the health care providers (both the doctors and the organisation hiring them) will be discussed. Then, the impacts for children and their parents are explored. Finally, the consequences of the impacts for developers of electronic patient records and digital administration systems will be discussed. In the end, the main socio-cultural impacts will be summarized and recommendations will be formulated. The insights of this paper will hopefully help the youth care to digitise its patient records and\u00a0 administration in a responsible way, while aware of the socio-cultural impact this might have.<\/p>\n
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Possible sources to use (besides given literature)<\/em><\/p>\n Abbott, P. A., Foster, J., Marin, H. F., & Dykes, P. C. (2013). Complexity and the science of implementation in health IT\u2014Knowledge gaps and future visions. International journal of medical informatics<\/em>.<\/p>\n Ludwick, D. A., & Doucette, J. (2009). Adopting electronic medical records in primary care: lessons learned from health information systems implementation experience in seven countries. International journal of medical informatics, 78<\/em>(1), 22-31.<\/p>\n Nguyen, L., Bellucci, E., & Nguyen, L. T. (2014). Electronic Health Records Implementation: An Evaluation of Information System Impact and Contingency Factors. International journal of medical informatics<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arthur Verkerke In a digitalizing world, all kind of healthcare services are adopting more and more information systems. In the youth health care, this process is also going on. The fact that (1) children are not (yet) capable of standing up for their own rights and that (2) the maturation of children can be seriously … Continue reading E-health in youth health care<\/span>