Data accessed at the bedside must clearly identify the patient, whereas data for statisticians looking at improving healthcare processes must be anonymised.
Quality management to improve healthcare processes is a priority in the ICU.
Thus, simplifying healthcare processes and reducing costs through the use of automated systems can make a significant socio-economic impact.
We provide an example, ThedaCare Inc., where both problems are improved by providing mechanisms that stop healthcare processes.
In this paper, we discuss the integration of new technology-depending processes, e.g., that come with off-the-shelf solutions, with existing healthcare processes.
We show the proposed method can be used to understand and analyze healthcare processes systematically and identify specific areas of improvement.
The Designing Out Medical Error (DOME) project brought together clinicians, designers, psychologists, human factors and business expertise to develop solutions for the highest risk healthcare processes.
The introduction of changes to existing healthcare processes or e-systems often fails because users' needs and operational/organizational goals may not get satisfied.
A wide range of quality indicators have been developed in an attempt to differentiate between high-quality and low-quality healthcare processes.
We propose a model which we are using to define services and solutions for healthcare applications from the requirements in the healthcare processes.
A seamless support of information flow for increasingly distributed healthcare processes requires to integrate heterogeneous IT systems into a comprehensive distributed information system.
