TY - GEN
T1 - Fit between individuals, tasks, technology, and environment (FITTE) framework
T2 - 17th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, MEDINFO 2019
AU - Prgomet, Mirela
AU - Georgiou, Andrew
AU - Callen, Joanne
AU - Westbrook, Johanna
N1 - Copyright International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press 2019. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.
PY - 2019/8/21
Y1 - 2019/8/21
N2 - Evaluating and optimising 'fit' between technology and clinical work is critical to ensure the intended benefits of technology implementations are achieved. Using a mixed method approach (structured observation, interviews, field notes) we collected data regarding users, tasks, technology, and factors impeding technology use from a sample of 38 clinicians on two wards at an Australian hospital. We used the FITT framework to assess the relationships between users, tasks, and technology. Our findings showed that even when adequate fit between users, tasks, and technology was attained additional factors related to the environment (including the temporal rhythms of a ward, infection control rooms, or space limitations) ultimately affected technology use. Thus, we propose the fit between individuals, task, technology and environment (FITTE) framework as a means to evaluate and optimise technology use by explicating the relationships between users, tasks, technology, and the environment in which they operate.
AB - Evaluating and optimising 'fit' between technology and clinical work is critical to ensure the intended benefits of technology implementations are achieved. Using a mixed method approach (structured observation, interviews, field notes) we collected data regarding users, tasks, technology, and factors impeding technology use from a sample of 38 clinicians on two wards at an Australian hospital. We used the FITT framework to assess the relationships between users, tasks, and technology. Our findings showed that even when adequate fit between users, tasks, and technology was attained additional factors related to the environment (including the temporal rhythms of a ward, infection control rooms, or space limitations) ultimately affected technology use. Thus, we propose the fit between individuals, task, technology and environment (FITTE) framework as a means to evaluate and optimise technology use by explicating the relationships between users, tasks, technology, and the environment in which they operate.
KW - Computers
KW - Health services research
KW - Models
KW - Theoretical
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071448258&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/SHTI190322
DO - 10.3233/SHTI190322
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
C2 - 31438023
AN - SCOPUS:85071448258
SN - 9781643680026
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 744
EP - 748
BT - MEDINFO 2019
A2 - Ohno-Machado, Lucila
A2 - Seroussi, Brigitte
PB - IOS Press
CY - Amsterdam
Y2 - 25 August 2019 through 30 August 2019
ER -