We all know the name, but what is it actually? Like IBM Watson, it's not just one thing, and we are continuously working towards defining and building it out. In today's post, I want to talk about the frameworks driving the design of the Validitron. In follow-up posts, I'll say more about the Sandbox and the SimLab.
This is the latest graphic describing the Validitron (thanks, Kit!). We are drawing on several published frameworks to design and operationalize the Validitron.
CEHRES Roadmap
The CEHRES Roadmap pulls many frameworks together to improve the uptake and impact of eHealth technologies. The authors describe it as a "holistic framework based on a participatory development approach, persuasive design techniques, and business modeling."
Design Thinking
The Stanford Design Thinking Process is an easy-to-follow guide for designing innovation with stakeholders, and we teach it in the Applied LHS course. The first recorded seminar for the Centre was about applying design thinking to health, by Thomas Reese, now at Vanderbilt. He gave the talk in March 2020 and escaped right before we closed our borders.
ELICIT Framework
The Evaluation in Life Cycle of Information Technology (ELICIT) framework supports the innovation life cycle from business case assessment to summative evaluation. It has been developed by Polina Kukhareva and colleagues at the University of Utah specifically for EHR-integrated innovations and details the types of questions to be asking at each stage of development. Polina also presented at our seminar as she was developing the model. It emphasizes evaluation at all stages.
Operationalizing the Models
Now the hard part--how do we operationalize these? We will be scheduling a fortnightly working meeting dedicated to this topic that will be driven by examples from our funded grants and projects.
Kayley got married over the weekend (congratulations!), so I thought I'd end the post with a picture from my wedding day in 1991.
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