title: A modelization of the task allocation problem for prescribing activity in an ICU.
abstract: The improvement of coordination between Health Care Professionals belonging different specialities and who are extremely mobile, is a crucial problem in Medicine. A workflow System is one example of the new informatics tools which facilitate the transfer of information and responsibility between health care providers. Medical informatics systems in particular should be reactive enough to cope with the flexibility of real work situations: in this paper, we present the task allocation problem. We distinguish between the workflow control process and the notifying process, which concerns the sharing out of the tasks between the actors concerned. We focus on the impact of strategies of notification on the progress of coordinated work. We propose a simulator to model and study the different ways of sharing tasks between actors in an Intensive Care Unit's activity of prescription.
authors.affiliation: CERIM-Faculty Of Medicine, 1, Place De Verdun-59 045 Lille, France. renard@univ-lille2.fr
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Renard
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bricon-Souf
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guigue
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Beuscart
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010557:Personnel Administration, Hospital; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D016526:Workload