title: Computer-mediated mobile messaging as collaboration support for nurses.
abstract: Collaboration in hospitals is coordinated mainly by communication, which currently happens by face-to-face meetings, phone calls, pagers, notes and the electronic patient record. These habits raise problems e.g., delayed notifications and unnecessary interruptions. Dealing with these problems could save time and improve the care. Therefore we designed and prototyped a mobile messaging solution based on two specific scenarios coming from observations at a cardiology department of a Norwegian hospital. The main focus was on supporting the work of nurses. One prototype supported patient management while another one dealt with messages related to medication planning. The evaluation of the prototypes suggested that messaging-based collaboration support is worth to explore and also gave ideas for improvement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. kpeter@idi.ntnu.no
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Karpati
authors.forename: Pieter Jelle
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Toussaint
authors.forename: Oystein
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Nytrø
mesh_terms: D016507:Cardiology Service, Hospital; D003142:Communication; D003201:Computers; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D009664:Norway; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital