TY - JOUR
T1 - Mobile decision support for transplantation patient data
AU - Krause, Andreas
AU - Hartl, Dominik
AU - Theis, Fabian
AU - Stangl, Manfred
AU - Gerauer, Klaus E.
AU - Mehlhorn, Alexander T.
PY - 2004/6/15
Y1 - 2004/6/15
N2 - In high-critical medical fields instant information delivery is essential. Task-flow analyses within the transplantation unit of the Technische Universität München revealed that valuable time could be saved in pre-transplantation management being able to retrieve data of organ receivers ubiquitously. Inspired by this clinical scenario, a mobile application was designed and implemented providing surgeons with decision-relevant information on potential organ receivers. It assists them in considering the prospects of forthcoming organ transplantations and facilitates decision making and documentation with regard to high security demands. The described system services three organ receiver lists and is used by the surgeons in every transplantation procedure. After a 6-month period of clinical usage, the system has been evaluated in terms of handling, clinical benefit and total time savings. Intuitive, ubiquitous access to decision-relevant patient data and authenticated documentation were the major improvements with average total time savings of 50 min in comparison to the old system.
AB - In high-critical medical fields instant information delivery is essential. Task-flow analyses within the transplantation unit of the Technische Universität München revealed that valuable time could be saved in pre-transplantation management being able to retrieve data of organ receivers ubiquitously. Inspired by this clinical scenario, a mobile application was designed and implemented providing surgeons with decision-relevant information on potential organ receivers. It assists them in considering the prospects of forthcoming organ transplantations and facilitates decision making and documentation with regard to high security demands. The described system services three organ receiver lists and is used by the surgeons in every transplantation procedure. After a 6-month period of clinical usage, the system has been evaluated in terms of handling, clinical benefit and total time savings. Intuitive, ubiquitous access to decision-relevant patient data and authenticated documentation were the major improvements with average total time savings of 50 min in comparison to the old system.
KW - Computerized medical records systems
KW - Databases
KW - Medical informatics applications
KW - Organ transplantation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=2542458256&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2004.04.003
DO - 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2004.04.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 15171987
AN - SCOPUS:2542458256
SN - 1386-5056
VL - 73
SP - 461
EP - 464
JO - International Journal of Medical Informatics
JF - International Journal of Medical Informatics
IS - 5
ER -