Towards Distributed Sociotechnical System for Reporting Critical Laboratory Results

Msury Mahunnah, Annike Koorts, Kuldar Taveter

2013

Abstract

In healthcare domain, reporting of laboratory results by biomedical scientists to caregivers is a common practice. Many healthcare centres follow different kind of guidelines for reporting laboratory results for the purpose of improving the process. In this paper, we first analyze current procedure for reporting Critical Laboratory Results (CLRs) followed by North Estonia Medical Centre (NEMC) located in Estonia. We then identify weaknesses and argue that reporting of CLRs requires advanced mechanisms because a patient with CLRs is always in need of a prompt treatment or decisions on medication from the appropriate caregiver. We then critically analyze a problem of reporting CLRs to caregivers with the aim to support this process by appropriate sociotechnical system. We do this by using the approach of agent-oriented modelling. The analysis is followed by models for designing a distributed sociotechnical system for managing CLRs.

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Mahunnah M., Koorts A. and Taveter K. (2013). Towards Distributed Sociotechnical System for Reporting Critical Laboratory Results . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-37-2, pages 269-276. DOI: 10.5220/0004329102690276


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@conference{healthinf13,
author={Msury Mahunnah and Annike Koorts and Kuldar Taveter},
title={Towards Distributed Sociotechnical System for Reporting Critical Laboratory Results},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={269-276},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004329102690276},
isbn={978-989-8565-37-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2013)
TI - Towards Distributed Sociotechnical System for Reporting Critical Laboratory Results
SN - 978-989-8565-37-2
AU - Mahunnah M.
AU - Koorts A.
AU - Taveter K.
PY - 2013
SP - 269
EP - 276
DO - 10.5220/0004329102690276