1st International ICST Workshop on Connected Health: Using IT to Integrate the HealthCare Enterprise

Research Article

Beyond the Archive: Thinking CSCW into EHRs for Home Care

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361695,
        author={Aino V.  Corry and Mads  Ingstrup and Simon B. Larsen},
        title={Beyond the Archive: Thinking CSCW into EHRs for Home Care},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Connected Health: Using IT to Integrate the HealthCare Enterprise},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CONNECTINGHEALTH},
        year={2007},
        month={5},
        keywords={Collaboration  Computer science  Diabetes  Foot  Hospitals  Medical services  Medical treatment  Pregnancy  Software architecture  Telemedicine},
        doi={10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361695}
    }
    
  • Aino V. Corry
    Mads Ingstrup
    Simon B. Larsen
    Year: 2007
    Beyond the Archive: Thinking CSCW into EHRs for Home Care
    CONNECTINGHEALTH
    ICST
    DOI: 10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361695
Aino V. Corry1,*, Mads Ingstrup1,*, Simon B. Larsen1,*
  • 1: Centre for Pervasive Healthcare, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Aabogade 34, 8200 Denmark
*Contact email: apaipi@daimi.au.dk, ingstrup@daimi.au.dk, simonbl@daimi.au.dk

Abstract

The current electronic health records (EHR) are not build to adequately support pervasive healthcare, but overcoming certain challenges could change that. In this paper we explicate that point by presenting results of applying participatory design to two scenarios: treating diabetic foot ulcers at home, and providing support for women during their pregnancy. In particular, the contributions of this paper are: (1) to explicate the diversity of the domain, and how this leads to complex issues in practice, (2) to present four particular issues that need to be addressed in the design of EHRs as found through application of participatory design in our two scenarios, (3) to establish promising approaches to handling those four issues, and (4) to present the core of a software architecture that supports these approaches