A systematic literature review of evaluation methods for health collaborative systems

This paper presents a systematic literature review of evaluation methods for collaborative systems in health area. This work aims to identify the state of art of evaluation methods as well as to detect gaps in this area. The focus of evaluation is the usability and collaboration in health systems. The Systematic Literature Review method was used to realize the systematic revision in ACM and IEEE Xplore digital libraries. It was found 123 papers with the keywords researched. The analysis result shows that works related to health in general does not evaluate the collaboration aspect. In the searched works we found that, in general, they briefly assess the functions and usability aspects of the target system. This paper presents the study and concludes that the healthcare information systems remain being an area that demands effort of research and study.