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Initial perceptions of key stakeholders in Ontario regarding independent prescriptive authority for pharmacists.
Res Social Adm Pharm. 2013 Jun 28;
Pojskic N, Mackeigan L, Boon H, Austin Z
A number of jurisdictions, both in Canada and internationally, have recently expanded pharmacists' scope of practice to allow prescriptive authority.To ascertain the initial perceptions of the Ontario government and health professional stakeholder groups regarding the prospect of prescriptive authority for pharmacists.Qualitative research methods were used; data sources were policy documents and semi-structured interviews with key informants from the Ontario government and pharmacy and medical professional organizations. Purposive and snowball sampling strategies were used to identify 17 key informants. Fifty-one relevant policy documents were retrieved through searches of organizational websites and interviewee suggestions. Interview transcripts and documents were content analyzed independently by 2 researchers; and once consensus was achieved on key themes, the primary investigator analyzed the remainder.Pharmacy organizations and Ontario government representatives both expressed support for pharmacist prescriptive authority, suggesting that it would enhance patient access to primary care. Medical organizations were opposed to this expanded pharmacist role, arguing that pharmacists' lack of training and experience in diagnosis and prescribing would endanger patient safety. Other concerns were fragmentation of care and pharmacists' lack of access to patient clinical information. Some government and pharmacy informants felt that pharmacist prescribing would decrease health system costs through substitution of cheaper health professionals for physicians, while others felt that costs would increase due to increased utilization of services. Medical organizations preferred delegated medical authority as the policy alternative to pharmacist prescribing.Widely different views were expressed by the Ontario government and pharmacy organizations on the one hand and medical professional organizations on the other hand, regarding the potential impact of pharmacist prescribing on patient safety and access to primary care. This is likely due, at least in part, to the lack of evidence on the expected impact of this expanded pharmacist role. More research is needed to help inform discussions regarding this issue.
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Designing eHealth that Matters via a Multidisciplinary Requirements Development Approach.
JMIR Res Protoc. 2013; 2(1): e21
Van Velsen L, Wentzel J, Van Gemert-Pijnen JE
Requirements development is a crucial part of eHealth design. It entails all the activities devoted to requirements identification, the communication of requirements to other developers, and their evaluation. Currently, a requirements development approach geared towards the specifics of the eHealth domain is lacking. This is likely to result in a mismatch between the developed technology and end user characteristics, physical surroundings, and the organizational context of use. It also makes it hard to judge the quality of eHealth design, since it makes it difficult to gear evaluations of eHealth to the main goals it is supposed to serve.In order to facilitate the creation of eHealth that matters, we present a practical, multidisciplinary requirements development approach which is embedded in a holistic design approach for eHealth (the Center for eHealth Research roadmap) that incorporates both human-centered design and business modeling.Our requirements development approach consists of five phases. In the first, preparatory, phase the project team is composed and the overall goal(s) of the eHealth intervention are decided upon. Second, primary end users and other stakeholders are identified by means of audience segmentation techniques and our stakeholder identification method. Third, the designated context of use is mapped and end users are profiled by means of requirements elicitation methods (eg, interviews, focus groups, or observations). Fourth, stakeholder values and eHealth intervention requirements are distilled from data transcripts, which leads to phase five, in which requirements are communicated to other developers using a requirements notation template we developed specifically for the context of eHealth technologies.The end result of our requirements development approach for eHealth interventions is a design document which includes functional and non-functional requirements, a list of stakeholder values, and end user profiles in the form of personas (fictitious end users, representative of a primary end user group).The requirements development approach presented in this article enables eHealth developers to apply a systematic and multi-disciplinary approach towards the creation of requirements. The cooperation between health, engineering, and social sciences creates a situation in which a mismatch between design, end users, and the organizational context can be avoided. Furthermore, we suggest to evaluate eHealth on a feature-specific level in order to learn exactly why such a technology does or does not live up to its expectations.
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