Paper Info
Title
Implementing Medication Management Software Effectively Within a Hospital Environment: Gaining Benefits from Metaphorical Design
Abstract
Implementing health information systems (HIS) to support the healthcare process is subject to many challenges: behavioural, technical, and organisational. Developing these technological artefacts based on good understanding of such challenges, yields a system design capable of addressing implementation issues. Based on such understanding, we set off a development process to produce a metaphoric software tool to support health care practitioners in a hospital setting. The development of software adopting such approach explicitly considers the inclusion of users concerns, a crucial determinant for the successful implementation of any IS. The software design directly implemented the look and feel of a paper-based medical form used by targeted health care practitioners. This paper illustrates empirical research done in developing and evaluating a metaphoric software tool, and highlights important aspects of such approach in addressing the implementation process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-01112-2_36
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Implementation of Health Information systems,metaphoric design,socio-technical approach
Software Engineering Process Group,Personal software process,Package development process,Software peer review,Knowledge management,Software project management,Software technical review,Engineering,Software development,Social software engineering
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
20
1865-1348
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Salah Awami100.34
Paula M. C. Swatman257789.26
Jean-pierre Calabretto371.89