Building consensus toward a national nursing home information technology maturity model.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We describe the development of a nursing home information technology (IT) maturity model designed to capture stages of IT maturity.

Materials and methods

This study had 2 phases. The purpose of phase I was to develop a preliminary nursing home IT maturity model. Phase II involved 3 rounds of questionnaires administered to a Delphi panel of expert nursing home administrators to evaluate the validity of the nursing home IT maturity model proposed in phase I.

Results

All participants (n = 31) completed Delphi rounds 1-3. Over the 3 Delphi rounds, the nursing home IT maturity staging model evolved from a preliminary, 5-stage model (stages 1-5) to a 7-stage model (stages 0-6).

Discussion

Using innovative IT to improve patient outcomes has become a broad g

SUBMITTER: Alexander GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7647342 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature