Exploring health and design evidence practices in eHealth systems’ development
Year: 2023
Editor: Kevin Otto, Boris Eisenbart, Claudia Eckert, Benoit Eynard, Dieter Krause, Josef Oehmen, Nad
Author: Morales Ornelas, Hosana Cristina; Kleinsmann, Maaike; Kortuem, Gerd
Series: ICED
Institution: Delft University of Technology
Section: Design Methods
Page(s): 1795-1804
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2023.180
ISBN: -
ISSN: -
Abstract
Evidence-based practices play an essential role in the development of eHealth systems. Prior research has investigated the challenge of shared understanding between professionals from the fields of health sciences and design and has highlighted the need for effective alignment of development and research practices in eHealth. However, there is a limited understanding of epistemological differences between these fields and how professionals conceptualise evidence. In this paper, we investigate how healthcare and design professionals think about evidence and how they implement evidence practices in their work. We interviewed eight professionals and used reflexive thematic analysis to identify the challenges and strategies associated with their evidence practices. Our results identify five shared evidence practices between healthcare and design professionals: stakeholder-driven, process-driven, problem-driven, effect-driven, and solution-driven. These five evidence practices indicate opportunities for closer alignment of development and research practices among healthcare and design professionals and offer a basis to create a shared understanding of evidence between both fields.
Keywords: Evidence-based practice, Design practice, Collaborative design, Design methodology, Design theory