Items for "information systems design"

Cognitive Tools in Medical Teamwork: The Spatial Arrangement of Patient Records

OBJECTIVES: As a preliminary for the design of Computer-Based Patient Records, the aim of this paper is to build an understanding of the roles physical artifacts like paper-based patient records play in supporting cognition and collaboration in the health-care settings. METHOD: A small ethnographically-informed study was conducted in the emergency room at a 250-bed hospital in Sweden from the perspective of Distributed Cognition. RESULTS: To track work-in-progress, clinicians placed patient records on a desk to form a shared public display that represented the current problem state for the health-care team...

Keywords: Cognitive artifacts, Distributed Cognition, information systems design, computer-based patient records, cooperative work