Research Article
Designing a Mobile Patient Information Sharing System using Patients Community Members: Perceptions of Emergency Physicians
Author(s):
Kensuke Morris, Goshiro Yamamoto, Osamu Sugiyama, Luciano H. O. Santos, Takahiko Tsutsumi, Ryo Ohtsuki, Genta Kato, Shusuke Hiragi, Kazuya Okamoto, Masayuki Nambu and Tomohiro Kuroda
Objectives: Emergency Physicians utilize multiple patient information (PI) sources within Emergency Departments. Access to a centralized health record system is ideal but not always available to physicians. A technological gap exists in the context of PI sharing regarding patients’ representative and their in-situ involvement as an alternative PI source. The purpose of this study is to understand emergency physicians’ perceptions about patients’ representative and our design concept for improvement of PI sharing to physicians.
Methods: Observations focused on physician’s interaction with representatives were used to understand the emergency setting which led to a mobile PI sharing application design. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three experienced physicians to obtain their perceptions about the usefuln.. Read More»