Lightweight&Heavyweight IT


Lightweight&Heavyweight IT is an evaluation project related to the implementation of the Medanet app and DIPS Arena EHR at Nordland Hospital. The goal is to explore opportunities and challenges in the socio-technical interaction when lightweight technology (Medanet's App) is integrated with a new open heavyweight platform (DIPS Arena). DIPS Arena is developed in accordance with the openEHR architecture. In principle, the openEHR architecture should enable other vendors to develop lightweight IT, such as apps, based on openEHR, which can be integrated with DIPS Arena, providing a semantically interoperable infrastructure crucial for increased patient safety and treatment quality. However, there is limited knowledge about this form of semantic infrastructure and the opportunities and challenges that arise from technical integration. The research project is led by the National Center for e-Health Research (NSE).

Research Group

Gro-Hilde Severinsen (NSE/project leader), Gunnar Ellingsen (IHO/NSE), Line Silsand (IHO/NSE), Kristian Malm-Nicolaisen (NSE) og Rune Pedersen (NSE)

Collaborating Partners

Nordland Hospital

Project Period

2021-2025

Funding

National Center for e-Health Research

Publications

M-Nicolaisen, Kristian; Ellingsen, Gunnar; Hertzum, Morten; Silsand, Line; Severinsen, Gro-Hilde (2023). Evolution of Information Infrastructures in Healthcare as Convergence of Digital Trajectories (submitted).

 Severinsen, G.H.; Silsand, L.; Malm-Nicolaisen, K.; Pedersen, R. Ellingsen, G. (2022). Introducing Lightweight IT – A Way to Build Flexibility for Healthcare Organizations? Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol 294, pp. 199-203.

Severinsen, G.H.; Silsand, L.; Malm-Nicolaisen, K.; Pedersen, R.; Sørslett, B.; Ellingsen, G (2022). Intended and Unintended Consequences of Implementing a Nursing App.  eTELEMED 2022, The Fourteenth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine. International Academy, Research and Industry Association, pp. 58-66.

External link to the project

Project page at NSE