HIS Scoring Qualifiers - A Novel Gathering Expert Map-based Weighting Scheme from Survey

摘要

The task to score or evaluate a Health Information System (HIS) is complex and lays mostly on comparisons. Reference elements used for system evaluation during auditing or tests includes standards, requirement list and other documents that are technical in general. A system under evaluation must therefore meet or exceed reference elements characteristics after careful assessment to be consider equivalent. The limitation of this traditional evaluation method is related to the highly specialized manpower needed to scrutinize all system against reference. This article proposes a novel method for construction of a simplified reference element based on Concept Maps (CM), which represents HIS common requirement documents in a digested format. CMs are weighted node-link conceptual graphs used to represent a knowledge within a domain. In our particular experiment, this knowledge is obtained from expert's survey and its suggested to be used as a pre-assessment tool for system evaluation.