Evaluation research in health informatics has made great further developments in the last years. Technological developments as well as growing demands for cost-benefit estimations of information technology have lead to numerous methodical and practical further developments.

To develop an open repository of published health IT evaluation studies.

Systematic literature review based on PubMed.

The open repository is available at at http://evaldb.umit.at. It has been updated in 2005 and 2007 and now collects around 1.300 evaluation studies. In 2009, a data acquisition interface was developed, allowing users from all ower the world to enter evaluation studies.

Ammenwerth E, de Keizer N. An inventory of evaluation studies of information technology in health care: Trends in evaluation research 1982 - 2002. Methods of Information in Medicine. 2005;44:44-56.

de Keizer N, Ammenwerth E. The effects and quality of IT evaluation studies: Trends in 1982 - 2002. In: Friedman CP, Ash J, Tarczy-Hornoch P (Hrsg.): American Medical Informatics Association 2005 Proceedings - Biomedical and Heatlh Informatics: From Foundations to Applications to Policy.Oct 22-26 2005, Washington DC. p. 186-190.

(A complete list of all publications can be found on our publications page.)