A collaborative document repository for home care teams.
Home care workers are mobile, work out of different locations, and have a high level of uncertainty in their schedules. This makes communication and information sharing difficult, and workers are often unable to account for others' activities when planning their own treatments. To address this issue, we developed and evaluated a clinical information system for home care that supports current paperwork practices and stores documents in a central repository that is accessible by all workers that treat a patient.
Pinelle
David
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Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Sasksatoon, Canada.
Gutwin
Carl
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D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems