Providing awareness through situated process maps: the hospital care case

  • Authors:
  • Federico Cabitza;Marcello Sarini;Carla Simone

  • Affiliations:
  • Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy;Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy;Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Clinical Pathways (CPs) are artifacts that clinicians are increasingly introducing in their practices in order to deal with health problems in the most effective, efficient and agreed way. As a result of an observational study at a Neonatology Intensive Care Unit, we found that most CPs are still paper-based. Although perceived useful even on paper, the physicians advocated a system integrating CPs with the clinical record. Based on their requirements, we present a proposal on how to conceive a computational system that can promote awareness in order to achieve better coordination and committed inclusion of pathways in daily clinical practice.