Usability requirements for improving the infection module of a hospital intensive care unit information system

  • Authors:

  • Mónica Sara Santos;João Falcoãe Cunha;Altamiro Da Costa Pereira

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Escola Superior de Tecnologia da, Saúde do Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Porto, Portugal;Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal;Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • DSVIS'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Interactive systems: Design, specification, and verification
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Hospitals deals with patients in life critical conditions. The Intensive Care Information System (ICS) can therefore provide extremely important information to support medical doctors' (MDs) decisions. For instance, it is critical to manage well information about the evolution of a large amount of infections over time, about the antibiotics administered to each patient, and the impact on his/her life condition. Good quality information and interaction in such an extreme environment is therefore critical for helping MDs target well medicines to patients. This paper describes the initial stages of a project aiming at improving a real ICS, in particular from the interaction point of view, taking into account the stringent usability requirements from the MDs. Through a validated low definition prototype of the infection module of ICS, the paper proposes innovative active ways of providing suggestions to MDs on what actions to take.