Keeping Distributed Care Together: Medical Summaries Reconsidered

Troels Mønsted*

*Corresponding author

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapportKonferencebidrag i proceedingsForskningpeer review

Abstract

Summaries in the medical record have traditionally offered health professionals good cognitive support by guiding reading of the medical record and supporting communication and collaboration in clinical teams. However, because of increased distribution of chronic care and fragmentation of the medical record, summaries are becoming increasingly incomplete and have lost some of their ability to mediate collaboration in clinical teams and support situated sensemaking. Based on findings from a project aimed at studying and designing IT to support collaboration among health professionals in distributed, chronic care, this article present a detail study of current use of summaries and discusses how a new type of summary can be designed to offer better support for distributed, chronic care. Overall I argue that we must maintain an appropriate balance between structure and flexibility, while reconsidering the readership, the authorship, and the maintenance of summaries.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19-23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway
RedaktørerNina Boulus-Rødje, Gunnar Ellingsen, Tone Bratteteig, Margunn Aanestad, Pernille Bjørn
Antal sider19
ForlagSpringer
Publikationsdato2015
Sider143-161
ISBN (Trykt)978-3-319-20498-7, 978-3-319-36794-1
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-3-319-20499-4
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2015
Udgivet eksterntJa
Begivenhed14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Oslo, Norge
Varighed: 19 sep. 201523 sep. 2015
Konferencens nummer: 14

Konference

Konference14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Nummer14
Land/OmrådeNorge
ByOslo
Periode19/09/201523/09/2015

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