Health-Analytics Readiness Assessment: Elaborated Action Design Research and Nascent Theoretical Implications

Abstract

Health analytics (HA) technology enables and enhances fact-based decision-making capabilities of hospitals in the clinical, operational, and administrative domains. It is, however, the case that HA success presupposes a hospital's readiness to adopt, absorb, and put the technology to effective use. Currently, there is a paucity of research that focuses on how hospital executives can assess their organization's readiness for HA. The principal objective of our study is to fill this gap. We design HA readiness-assessment artifacts guided by cross-sectional case studies to inform the design and the elaborated action design research approach that extends past artifacts through iterative collaboration with practitioners and industry experts. This article details the design process and artifacts and highlights implications for nascent theory and generalizable knowledge.