Pilot Study on Hospital Information Systems

Pilot study
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY....................................................................................................3
Pilot testing......................................................................................................................................5
Analysis...........................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
In present times, it is necessary to provide effective and better health care services to
people. With covid 19 pandemic it has led to focus on improving health care infrastructure.
However, technology is playing significant role in improving quality of services and reaching
out more people to provide them primary care services. In hospitals technological system are
installed to make operations easy (Bonaz, Sinniger, and Cracowski, 2016). It is used in various
types of purpose. Moreover, it has become necessary to maintain data records and history of
patients so that care services are offered to them properly. For that patient information system is
used in hospitals. The system store and protect patient data and info in effective way. So, with
use of this it becomes easy to analyse patient history and records. So, accordingly they are
given treatment. The use of system is increasing as it has enabled in managing and maintaining
record of patient. Thus, information is effectively evaluated and analysed. Along with it, there is
change in handling of patient and maintaining records. Many times, due to unavailability of
resources and lack of information it becomes extremely difficult for administrative staff of the
hospital to manage admission of the patients. Many times, due to lack of information slots
provided to patients are already booked or healthcare professions to whom patients are referred
are already busy/ preoccupied or are unavailable.
Thus, a pilot study has been conducted to find out usage of hospital information systems.
For that large scale survey will be conducted and then data and info will be gathered to obtain
relevant outcomes. The purpose of pilot study is to test reliability by selecting own data set
(Bousquet, Caimmi and Chavannes, 2017).
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
In order to conduct study, it requires different types of research methods in it. The use of
method enable in providing a framework on how research has to be conducted. Besides it gives
insight to user that what methods are used in it. This is because the use of research methods
depends on nature and type of study. Similarly, for present study there are different methods that
is used in it. They are defined as below ;
Research Design
It is a strategy which is used for integration of research elements so that main problem of the
research is addressed (In, ,2017). There are three types of research design: exploratory,
descriptive and casual. Exploratory is used for exploring aim and objective in order to answer the
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research question, Descriptive is used for describing all the elements of the research whereas,
casual is used to study relationship between cause and effect variables. For this research
exploratory research will be used as it will help the researcher in answering all the research
questions in an effective manner. Also, it will be useful in exploring that what changes are to be
done in health care.
Research philosophy
It deals with nature, source and development of knowledge. There are four main type of research
philosophies: pragmatism, interpretivism, realism and positivism. Pragmatism focuses only on
accepting a concept if it is relevant to an action. Positivism focuses on adhering factual
knowledge by gaining observation (Chen, LIU,. and QIAN, 2020). Realism focuses on relies on
the idea of independence of reality from the human mind. Whereas, interpretivism focuses on
interpreting elements of the study. For this research, researcher will be using interpretivism
research philosophy as it will help the researcher in interpreting all the elements associated with
the research.
Research approach – this consists of framework in order to analyse and evaluate data and info.
Through that it becomes easy to conduct study in effective way. Inductive and deductive are two
approach in it. in inductive new theory is developed with help of analyzing of data and info in
efficient way. However, in deductive previous theory is analysed in effective way. Thus, in this
study inductive approach will be used as it is based on observations new theory is proposed at
the end of the research (Justice, Nambiar, and Kirkland, 2019).
Research type- in this method the overall research is divided into various types that is aims,
research question, hypothesis, etc. the scholar must identify research type so that on basis of it
data is gathered. If type is not identified the it is difficult to carry out further research.
Generally, there are two research type that is qualitative and quantitative. In qualitative only
theoretical data is gathered. There is no numeric data or facts presented in it. Basically, it means
to select secondary data. In quantitative data is collected of facts and numeric. This research will
be qualitative type. The data gathered will be non numeric about use of patient information
system in hospitals.
Data collection- it is an important element in research. this is process of collection of data from
relevant sources. Here, data needs to be gathered properly as entire outcomes of study is based
on it. Also, sources needs to be reliable as well in it. there are two method in it that is primary
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