IT support for clinical pathways-Lessons learned

Lenz R (2007)


Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2007

Journal

Publisher: ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD

Book Volume: 76

Pages Range: S397-S402

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.04.012

Abstract

Clinical pathways are an effective instrument to decrease undesired practice variability and improve clinician performance. IT-applications embedded into clinical routine work can help to increase pathway compliance. Successfully implementing such applications requires both a responsive IT infrastructure and a participatory and iterative design process aimed at achieving user acceptance and usability. Experiences from the implementation and iterative improvement of an online surgical pathway at Marburg University Medical Centre have shown that pathway conformance actually could be improved by the use of IT. An analysis of the iterative design process has shown that future pathway projects can benefit from the lessons learned during this project. Based on these lessons recommendations for developing well adapted interaction mechanisms are presented, aimed at improving process alignment. Our goal is to build up a library of tested reusable components to reduce the number of iterations for pathway implementation. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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APA:

Lenz, R. (2007). IT support for clinical pathways-Lessons learned. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 76, S397-S402. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.04.012

MLA:

Lenz, Richard. "IT support for clinical pathways-Lessons learned." International Journal of Medical Informatics 76 (2007): S397-S402.

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