Authors:
Christoph J. Stettina
;
Lucas P. J. Groenewegen
and
Bernhard R. Katzy
Affiliation:
Leiden University, Netherlands
Keyword(s):
Clinical pathways, Process modeling, Medical teamwork, Knowledge work, Self-adaptation, Documentation, Dynamic consistency.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare IT
;
Health Information Systems
;
Software Systems in Medicine
Abstract:
Technology is omnipresent in intervention rooms, potentially having enormous impact on workflows and on flexibility. Despite ICT systems’ more flexible support of medical protocols, the styles of collaborating do not really match. Intervention support systems are as yet stand alone and not sufficiently interoperable. Taking an ICT perspective, we seek to understand medical work, how to view the way it is organized and how to improve its integration with intervention support systems, driven by highly dynamic coordination models embedded in the framework of clinical pathways.