Using integrated bio-physiotherapy informatics in home health-care settings: A qualitative analysis of a point-of-care decision support system.
The growing need to gain efficiencies within a home care setting has prompted home care practitioners to focus on health informatics to address the needs of an aging clientele. The remote and heterogeneous nature of the home care environment necessitates the use of non-intrusive client monitoring and a portable, point-of-care graphical user interface. Using a grounded theory approach, this article examines the simulated use of a graphical user interface by practitioners in a home care setting to explore the salient features of monitoring the activity of home care clients. The results demonstrate the need for simple, interactive displays that can provide large amounts of geographical and temporal data relating to patient activity. Additional emerging themes from interviews indicate that home care professionals would use a graphical user interface of this type for patient education and goal setting as well as to assist in the decision-making process of home care practitioners.
Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada ccanally@wlu.ca.
Culum
C
Canally
Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.
Sean
S
Doherty
University of Toronto, Canada.
Diane M
DM
Doran
Carleton University, Canada.
Rafik A
RA
Goubran
D003625:Data Collection; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D066296:Grounded Theory; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D036301:Qualitative Research; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014584:User-Computer Interface
IT health-care evaluation; decision support systems; ehealth; health-care service innovation and IT; information and knowledge management