Exploring health and design evidence practices in eHealth systems’ development

Exploring health and design evidence practices in eHealth systems’ development

Morales Ornelas, H.C. (TU Delft Internet of Things)
Kleinsmann, M.S. (TU Delft Design, Organisation and Strategy)
Kortuem, G.W. (TU Delft Internet of Things)

Design, Organisation and Strategy

2023

Evidence-based practices play an essential role in the development of eHealth systems. Prior research has investigated the challenge of shared understanding between professionals from the fields of health sciences and design and has highlighted the need for effective alignment of development and research practices in eHealth. However, there is a limited understanding of epistemological differences between these fields and how professionals conceptualise evidence. In this paper, we investigate how healthcare and design professionals think about evidence and how they implement evidence practices in their work. We interviewed eight professionals and used reflexive thematic analysis to identify the challenges and strategies associated with their evidence practices. Our results identify five shared evidence practices between healthcare and design professionals: stakeholder-driven, process-driven, problem-driven, effect-driven, and solution-driven. These five evidence practices indicate opportunities for closer alignment of development and research practices among healthcare and design professionals and offer a basis to create a shared understanding of evidence between both fields.

collaborative design
design methodology
design practice
evidence-based practice

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d5cd7153-cb7a-4b0d-8c1d-ad815d9618f1

https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2023.180

2220-4334

Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED, 3 (July), 1795-1804

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© 2023 H.C. Morales Ornelas, M.S. Kleinsmann, G.W. Kortuem