Design and development of a mobile computer application to reengineer workflows in the hospital and the methodology to evaluate its effectiveness

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 968-977

  Holzinger, Andreas ^a   Kosec, Primoz ^a   Schwantzer, Gerold ^a   Debevc, Matjaz ^b   Hofmann Wellenhof, Rainer ^c   Frühauf, Julia ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Evaluation method; Information system; Mobile computing; Software design; User computer interface; Workflow reengineering

Indexed keywords

COST MODELS; DATA COMPLETENESS; DATA QUALITY; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD; END OF THE DAYS; EVALUATION METHOD; FRONT END; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL DATA; MEDICAL DOCTORS; MESOLEVEL; MOBILE COMPUTERS; PIGMENTED LESIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE DATA; SKIN CANCERS; SYSTEM USABILITY; TABLET COMPUTER; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME SPENT; USER-CENTERED DESIGN PROCESS; WORK-FLOWS; WORKFLOW OPTIMIZATION;

DATA ACQUISITION; DISPLAY DEVICES; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; MOBILE COMPUTING; RATING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SURVEYS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; CANCER RESEARCH; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOBILE COMPUTING; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SKIN CANCER; SYSTEM USABILITY SCALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKFLOW;

ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DOCUMENTATION; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; QUESTIONNAIRES; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84855923524     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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