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In this paper, we adopted a Lesson learned (LL) approach to promote knowledge sharing and knowledge management in healthcare IT implementation processes. The goal of the LL system is to provide system implementation suggestions based on... more
In this paper, we adopted a Lesson learned (LL) approach to promote knowledge sharing and knowledge management in healthcare IT implementation processes. The goal of the LL system is to provide system implementation suggestions based on the similarities between a new case and previous known cases. By doing so the LL system might help prevent avoidable healthcare IT failures via reuse of knowledge gained through past experiences.
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... She was taking vital signs of a patient for another nurse, Diana, in ED1. Knowing the imminent arrival of a trauma patient, Sandra quickly documented the measurements and updated Diana before rushing to the trauma room to receive the... more
... She was taking vital signs of a patient for another nurse, Diana, in ED1. Knowing the imminent arrival of a trauma patient, Sandra quickly documented the measurements and updated Diana before rushing to the trauma room to receive the arriving patient. ...
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Abstract Intergenerational players are online game players of different generations within an extended family. We investigated intergenerational play between older parents and their adult children in the popular Chinese social networking... more
Abstract Intergenerational players are online game players of different generations within an extended family. We investigated intergenerational play between older parents and their adult children in the popular Chinese social networking game QQ Farm. We identified ...
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Previous studies suggest that mobile phones could prevent many communication and information breakdowns that commonly occur in a hospital environment. However, the actual benefits of mobile phones in medical work remain unexplored. We... more
Previous studies suggest that mobile phones could prevent many communication and information breakdowns that commonly occur in a hospital environment. However, the actual benefits of mobile phones in medical work remain unexplored. We studied mobile phone usage among nurses in an Emergency Department (ED). Surprisingly, mobile phones were not favored by our study participants. We found that mobile phones do
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The goal of this study was to investigate how diabetes patients use health information to support their daily disease management. A qualitative interview study was conducted with type-2 diabetes patients and healthcare providers. The... more
The goal of this study was to investigate how diabetes patients use health information to support their daily disease management. A qualitative interview study was conducted with type-2 diabetes patients and healthcare providers. The analysis suggests that individual diabetes patients have a unique way of managing their care through the interpretation of personal health experiences. The ways in which patients
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Abstract A crucial step in the practice of evidence-based medicine is to locate the best available evidence regarding to clinical questions. In this article, we demonstrate that combining visualization techniques with traditional methods... more
Abstract A crucial step in the practice of evidence-based medicine is to locate the best available evidence regarding to clinical questions. In this article, we demonstrate that combining visualization techniques with traditional methods developed in evidence-based medicine could simplify the task. We describe a unifying framework for searching clinical evidence across multiple sources such as highly cited articles in the Web of Science and articles of particular types of study design in PubMed. We describe the implementation of ...
The presence of computers - especially desktops - takes significant time and attention away from patients during medical visits. As a result, patients may feel disengaged and disregarded. In this study, we examined the impact of using... more
The presence of computers - especially desktops - takes significant time and attention away from patients during medical visits. As a result, patients may feel disengaged and disregarded. In this study, we examined the impact of using "Computer-on-Wheels" (COWs) in exam-rooms. We found physicians constantly reorienting and resituating exam-room computers to different positions during the three stages of a medical
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HCI is about how people use systems to conduct tasks in context. Most current HCI research focuses on a single or multiple users’ interaction with system(s). Compared with the user, system and task components, context is a less studied... more
HCI is about how people use systems to conduct tasks in context. Most current HCI research focuses on a single or multiple users’ interaction with system(s). Compared with the user, system and task components, context is a less studied area. The emergence of ubiquitous computing, context-aware computing, and mobile computing requires system design to be adaptive and respond to aspects of setting in which the tasks are performed, including other users, devices and environments. Given the importance of context in information system design, we note that even the notion of context in HCI is not well-defined. In this paper, we review several theories of context as it relates to interaction design. We also present our Context-centered Framework which is aimed to bridging end users’ understand and designers’ designing together. The research design and expected outcomes are also presented.