Designing for complex innovations in health care: Design theory and realist evaluation combined

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Keller, Christina ^a   Lindblad, Staffan ^b   Gäre, Klas ^a   Edenius, Mats ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Design theory; Health Care; Innovation; Realist evaluation

Indexed keywords

DESIGN THEORY; EVALUATION APPROACH; EVALUATION FRAMEWORK; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FUZZY BOUNDARY; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REALIST EVALUATION;

DESIGN; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INNOVATION; RESEARCH;

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

EID: 70350647244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555619.1555623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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