title: Context in care--requirements for mobile context-aware patient charts.
abstract: The hospital ward is a highly dynamic work environment, in which healthcare personnel rapidly switch from one task to another. The process is partly planned, and partly driven by events and interrupts. A mobile electronic patient chart (MEPC) will be an important tool for supporting order entry and accessing, communicating, and recording clinical information. The users need to switch from one context to another with minimal delay and effort. Context-awareness, the ability to sense relevant situational information, can allow the user interface of the MEPC to adapt to various situations. In this paper, we present a future scenario from the coronary care unit. This scenario is analyzed and discussed in order to develop requirements for design methods, context models, and system properties of the MEPC.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway. yngve.dahl@idi.ntnu.no
authors.forename: Yngve
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Dahl
authors.forename: Inger Dybdahl
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Sorby
authors.forename: Øystein
authors.initials: Ø
authors.lastname: Nytro
mesh_terms: D034201:Computers, Handheld; D003325:Coronary Care Units; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D014584:User-Computer Interface