A simple and useful solution for visualizing the care flow for patients and healthcare professionals.
It has been known that visualization is a user-preferred and more meaningful interface of information systems. We used the Microsoft Visio 2003 and Excel 2003 with the VBA automation tool to design a process flow of Cardiac Catheterization. The results showed the technical feasibility and potentials of using simple tool to visualize the nursing process for both patients and healthcare professionals.
Chang
Polun
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Institute of BioMedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan (ROC).
Kuo
Ming Chuan
MC
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D003626:Data Display; D006282:Health Personnel; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010361:Patients; D012984:Software; D013624:Taiwan; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D057188:Workflow