Title : Visualization of Health Information Exchange Patterns

Project Lead : Patrick Kierkegaard From : University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Dates : from -- to 2015-02-11 13:18:21

Description :

Motivation and objectives :
This project focuses on the coordination of care between several healthcare practitioners when providing treatment for patients. A patient often requires care from multiple practitioners which means that in order to receive optimal care; their medical data has to be exchanged between multiple care providers across organizational and professional boundaries. This is most crucial aspect to successful treatment of a patient when the responsibility for the healthcare of the patient is shared between individuals or teams who are parts of separate organizations, or where substantial organizational boundaries exist. Due to the nature of healthcare work being highly interactive and communicative, a patients confidential health information, several risks are involved that compromise the security of patients medical information. This party due to the poor fit between workflow, communication and ICT systems implemented in the healthcare organizations. The overall goal of this study is to contribute to: (1) a safe and secure handling of the patients data through better modelling and visualization of workflow patterns and (2) improving the quality and efficiency of care by creating a framework for better fits between ICT and healthcare work. There is a need for additional tools to validate and visualize the processes involved during the treatment of a patient by showing objects and interactions of communication and data exchange on all levels within several different clinics and between organizations. This study would benefit from learning and implementing the tools developed by Technion ESML Lab and also to establish a long term relationship with the ESML Lab at Technion .

Teams :
Research at the Department of Computer Science (DIKU) is internationally recognized and conducted in close cooperation with national and international research institutions and private enterprises. Our research is performed within three different research groups and a number of centres and laboratorys.

Dates :
starting date : 04 May, 2014
ending date : 13 May, 2014

Facilities descriptions :
http://visionair-browser.g-scop.grenoble-inp.fr/visionair/Browser/Catalogs/ECVL.IL.html

Recordings & Results :
The results of this project suggest that visually modelling health information exchange patterns can assist researchers in identifying the bottlenecks that hinder the flow of clinical information during patient care. The implications of this study also suggest that developing a comprehensive conceptual model can also help aid health informatics researchers identify and develop potential interventions to improve the quality of patient care.

Conclusions :
The results of this project suggest that visually modelling health information exchange patterns can assist researchers in identifying the bottlenecks that hinder the flow of clinical information during patient care. The implications of this study also suggest that developing a comprehensive conceptual model can also help aid health informatics researchers identify and develop potential interventions to improve the quality of patient care.




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Other project resources :

Visionair Report - Patrick Kierkegaard.pdf