Mobile Healthcare Design Research: A Special Issue for Information Systems Researchers

摘要

Traditional Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) offer limited provisions to target user groups. These limitations can be seen from a technical point of view, such as for its flexibilities and service oriented provisions or methods. Although it is not very expensive and complicated in nature to build into designs, they often require rethinking on how the provisions would be better fit into the existing HIS settings, while modernising systems. With advanced provisions for flexibilities and greater adoptability, mobile computing and technologies have already become well-accepted by healthcare communities for various practice improvements (Burmeister et al., 2019; Khanom & Miah, 2020; Miah et al., 2017). A lot of healthcare processes and practices are now driven by mobile technologies both in community and clinical healthcare sectors ensuring quality delivery of care services to users or doctors and patients. The efficiency and effectiveness of this type of mobile solution design have been well-researched over the past few years, involving end users such as healthcare practitioners, doctors, nurses, bedside carers and allied health professionals (Bennett et al. 2017; Miah et al., 2017; Teipel et al., 2016).