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EXPLORING HEALTH AND DESIGN EVIDENCE PRACTICES IN EHEALTH SYSTEMS’ DEVELOPMENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2023

Hosana Cristina Morales Ornelas ,
Maaike Kleinsmann  and
Gerd Kortuem
Hosana Cristina Morales Ornelas*
Affiliation:
Delft University of Technology
Maaike Kleinsmann
Affiliation:
Delft University of Technology
Gerd Kortuem
Affiliation:
Delft University of Technology
*
Morales Ornelas, Hosana Cristina, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The, h.c.moralesornelas@tudelft.nl

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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 practiceDesign practiceCollaborative designDesign methodologyDesign theory
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 3: ICED23 , July 2023 , pp. 1795 - 1804
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