Paper Info
Title
Investigating the efficacy of an intelligent operation planning and support tool for acute healthcare contexts.
Abstract
Nurses are the largest group of healthcare professionals in hospitals providing 24-hour care to patients. Hence, nurses are pivotal in coordinating and communicating patient care information in the complex network of healthcare professionals, services and other care processes. Yet, despite nurses' central role in health care delivery, intelligent systems have historically rarely been designed around nurses' operational needs. This could explain the poor integration of technologies into nursing work processes and consequent rejection by nursing professionals. The complex nature of acute care delivery in hospitals and the frequently interrupted patterns of nursing work suggest that nurses require flexible intelligent systems that can support and adapt to their variable workflow patterns. This study is designed to explore nurses' initial reactions to a new intelligent operational planning and support tool (IOPST) for acute healthcare. The following reports on the first stage of a longitudinal project to use an innovative approach involving nurses in the development of the IOPST; from conceptualization to implementation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-927
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Acute care,Operational planning,Nursing informatics,Quality care,Patient safety,Clinical Informatics
Operational planning,Health care,Primary nursing,Nursing,Intelligent decision support system,Patient safety,Acute care,Conceptualization,Health informatics,Medicine
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
192
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nilmini Wickramasinghe137198.87
Bridie Kent230.75
Fatemeh (Hoda) Moghimi372.57
Lemai Nguyen417617.41
Bernice Redley541.80
Nyree J. Taylor631.42
Imran Muhammad710523.27
Mari Botti841.80