Mobile Task Management for Medical Ward Rounds - The MEDo Approach

Pryss, Rüdiger and Langer, David and Reichert, Manfred and Hallerbach, Alena (2012) Mobile Task Management for Medical Ward Rounds - The MEDo Approach. In: 1st Int'l Workshop on Adaptive Case Management (ACM'12), BPM'12 Workshops, 2 September 2012, Tallinn, Estonia.

[thumbnail of medoapproach.pdf] PDF - Requires a PDF viewer such as GSview, Xpdf or Adobe Acrobat Reader
Download (1MB)

Abstract

In hospitals, ward rounds are crucial for decision-making in the context of patient treatment processes. In the course of a ward round, new tasks are defined and allocated to physicians and nurses. In clinical practice, however, these tasks are not systematically managed. During ward rounds, they are jotted down using pen and paper, and their later processing is prone to errors. Furthermore, medical staff must keep track of the processing status of its tasks (e.g., medical orders). To relieve staff members from such
a manual task management, the MEDo approach supports ward rounds by transforming the pen and paper worksheet to a mobile user interface on a tablet integrating process support, mobile task management, and access to the electronic patient record. Interviews we conducted have confirmed that medical staff craves for mobile task and process support on wards. Furthermore, in several user
experiments, we have proven that MEDo puts task acquisition on a level comparable to that of pen and paper. Overall, with MEDo, physicians can create, monitor and share tasks using a mobile and user-friendly platform.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects: DBIS Research > Publications
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science > Institute of Databases and Informations Systems > DBIS Research and Teaching > DBIS Research > Publications
Depositing User: Ruediger Pryss
Date Deposited: 09 Oct 2012 12:05
Last Modified: 12 Apr 2013 22:33
URI: http://dbis.eprints.uni-ulm.de/id/eprint/839

Actions (login required)

View Item
View Item