Systematizing medical alerts.
The current Swedish regulations for medical alerts in health records were designed for paper records. Suggestions for computerized systems are now being investigated. A proposed model using three alert categories, graphically represented using three directions, probably combined with three severity levels is presented here. Up represents hypersensitivities, left/back represents alerting diagnosis and right/forward represents alerting current and planned treatments. A small qualitative user study of the alert classification model and some graphical representations of it was conducted. One main finding is that most respondents found the use of directions intuitive as a means of presenting categories. Context dependency, information overload, and future possibilities for automated alert-gathering are also discussed in the paper.
Pettersson
Mattias
M
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Linköpings universitet, Sweden.
Wihlborg
Jenny
J
Lövström
Rikard
R
Sundvall
Erik
E
Nyström
Mikael
M
Karlsson
Daniel
D
D000555:Ambulatory Care Information Systems; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008501:Medical Records, Problem-Oriented; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017010:Reminder Systems; D012985:Software Design; D013561:Symbolism