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Objectives: eHealth and innovation are often regarded as synonyms - not least because eHealth technologies and applications are new to their users. This position paper challenges this view and aims at exploring the nature of eHealth innovation against the background of common definitions of innovation and facts from the biomedical and health informatics literature. A good understanding of what constitutes innovative eHealth developments allows the degree of innovation to be measured and interpreted.
Methods: To this end, relevant biomedical and health informatics literature was searched mainly in Medline and ACM digital library. This paper presents seven facts about implementing and applying new eHealth developments hereby drawing on the experience published in the literature.
Results: The facts are: 1. eHealth innovation is relative. 2. Advanced clinical practice is the yardstick. 3. Only used and usable eHealth technology can give birth to eHealth innovatio. 4. One new single eHealth function does not make a complex eHealth innovation. 5. eHealth innovation is more evolution than revolution. 6. eHealth innovation is often triggered behind the scenes; and 7. There is no eHealth innovation without sociocultural change.
Conclusions: The main conclusion of the seven facts is that eHealth innovations have many ingredients: newness, availability, advanced clinical practice with proven outcomes, use and usability, the supporting environment, other context factors and the stakeholder perspectives. Measuring eHealth innovation is thus a complex matter. To this end we propose the development of a composite score that expresses comprehensively the nature of eHealth innovation and that breaks down its complexity into the three dimensions: i) eHealth adoption, ii) partnership with advanced clinical practice, and iii) use and usability of eHealth. In order to better understand the momentum and mechanisms behind eHealth innovation the fourth dimension, iv) eHealth supporting services and means, needs to be studied. Conceptualising appropriate measurement instruments also requires eHealth innovation to be distinguished from eHealth sophistication, performance and quality, although innovation is intertwined with these concepts. The demanding effort for defining eHealth innovation and measuring it properly seem worthwhile and promise advances in creating better systems. This paper thus intends to stimulate the necessary discussion.
Background: Clinical handovers at changes of shifts are typical scenarios of time restricted and information intensive communication, which are highly cognitively demanding. The currently available applications supporting handovers typically present complex information in a textual checklist-like manner. This presentation style has been criticised for not meeting the specific user requirements.
Objectives: We, therefore, aimed at developing a concept for visualising the overview of a clinical case that serves as an alternative way to checklist-like presentations in clinical handovers. We also aimed at implementing this concept in a handoverEHR in order to support the pre-handover phase, the actual handover, and the post-handover phase as well as at evaluating its usability and attractiveness.
Results: We developed and implemented a concept that draws on Tolman's pioneering work on cognitive maps that we designed in accordance with Gestalt principles. These maps provide a pictorial overview of a clinical case. The application to build, manipulate, and store the cognitive maps was integrated into an openEHR based handover record that extends conventional records with handover specific information. Usability (n = 28) and attractiveness (n = 26) testing with experienced clinicians resulted in good ratings for suitability for the task as well as for attractiveness and pragmatism.
Conclusion: We propose cognitive maps to represent and visualise the clinical case in situations where there is limited time to present complex information.
The demand for evidence-based health informatics and benchmarking of 'good' information systems in health care gives an opportunity to continue reporting on recent papers in the German journal GMS Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (MIBE) here. The publications in focus deal with a comparison of benchmarking initiatives in German-speaking countries, use of communication standards in telemonitoring scenarios, the estimation of national cancer incidence rates and modifications of parametric tests. Furthermore papers in this issue of MIM are introduced which originally have been presented at the Annual Conference of the German Society of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology. They deal as well with evidence and evaluation of 'good' information systems but also with data harmonization, surveillance in obstetrics, adaptive designs and parametrical testing in statistical analysis, patient registries and signal processing.
Background: Availability and usage of individual IT applications have been studied intensively in the past years. Recently, IT support of clinical processes is attaining increasing attention. The underlying construct that describes the IT support of clinical workflows is clinical information logistics. This construct needs to be better understood, operationalised and measured.
Objectives: It is therefore the aim of this study to propose and develop a workflow composite score (WCS) for measuring clinical information logistics and to examine its quality based on reliability and validity analyses.
Methods: We largely followed the procedural model of MacKenzie and colleagues (2011) for defining and conceptualising the construct domain, for developing the measurement instrument, assessing the content validity, pretesting the instrument, specifying the model, capturing the data and computing the WCS and testing the reliability and validity.
Results: Clinical information logistics was decomposed into the descriptors data and information, function, integration and distribution, which embraced the framework validated by an analysis of the international literature. This framework was refined selecting representative clinical processes. We chose ward rounds, pre- and post-surgery processes and discharge as sample processes that served as concrete instances for the measurements. They are sufficiently complex, represent core clinical processes and involve different professions, departments and settings. The score was computed on the basis of data from 183 hospitals of different size, ownership, location and teaching status. Testing the reliability and validity yielded encouraging results: the reliability was high with r(split-half) = 0.89, the WCS discriminated between groups; the WCS correlated significantly and moderately with two EHR models and the WCS received good evaluation results by a sample of chief information officers (n = 67). These findings suggest the further utilisation of the WCS.
Conclusion: As the WCS does not assume ideal workflows as a gold standard but measures IT support of clinical workflows according to validated descriptors a high portability of the WCS to other hospitals in other countries is very likely. The WCS will contribute to a better understanding of the construct clinical information logistics.
In Berlin wollte die Regierungskoalition aus SPD und CDU eine rechtlich nicht bindende Entscheidung der Berliner Bevölkerung über die Olympia-Bewerbung herbeiführen. Nachdem Hamburg den Zuschlag für die Olympia-Bewerbung bekommen hat, gibt es in Berlin Bestrebungen, konsultative Volksbefragungen auch für andere Projekte zu ermöglichen. In Bayern hat die CSU-Mehrheit vor Kurzem die Möglichkeit solcher konsultativer Volksbefragungen im Rahmen eines einfachen Parlamentsgesetzes beschlossen. Angesichts der die Verfassungsstruktur verändernden Wirkungen solcher Volksbefragungen ist deren Einführung nur durch Verfassungsänderung zulässig. Dies ist in Hamburg zu beachten, wo die Bevölkerung ebenfalls über die Olympia-Bewerbung entscheiden soll. Anderenfalls könnte ein bundesweiter Dammbruch verfassungswidriger Volksbefragungen bevorstehen. Es gilt daher, einer negativen verfassungsrechtlichen Vorbildfunktion für andere Länder und gar den Bund vorzubeugen.
Das Ziel der vorliegenden Studie liegt darin, den Stand der konzeptionellen Verankerung eines inklusiven Betreuungs- und Bildungsangebotes in Kindertageseinrichtungen der Stadt und des Landkreises Osnabrück empirisch zu erfassen. Hierzu wurde eine qualitative Inhaltsanalyse der pädagogischen Konzeptionen von 112 Einrichtungen vorgenommen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass nur in 9,8 % der Konzeptionen der Begriff „Inklusion“ verwendet wird. Förder- und Unterstützungsbedarfe von Kindern mit Beeinträchtigungen werden in 48,2 % der Konzeptionen angesprochen. In weniger als der Hälfte der Konzeptionen (43,8 %) wird die interprofessionelle Zusammenarbeit im Team von Kindertageseinrichtungen thematisiert, während fast alle Einrichtungen externe Kooperationspartner benennen. Maßnahmen zur Personal- und Organisationsentwicklung im Kontext von Inklusion werden kaum benannt. Insgesamt ist im Zuge der Umsetzung von Inklusion eine Weiterentwicklung der pädagogischen Konzeptionen von Kindertageseinrichtungen erforderlich.
Von den Finnen lernen
(2015)
Primäre Gesundheitsversorgung auf dem Land. In abgelegenen Regionen müssen Patienten heute weit fahren, um ihren Hausarzt zu sehen. Anderen Ländern geht es ähnlich, beispielsweise Finnland. Jedoch sind die Pflegefachpersonen dort mit besonderen Kompetenzen ausgestattet und können in Gesundheitszentren viele gesundheitliche Fragen ganz ohne Arzt klären. Ein Modell - von dem wir lernen können?
Report on visits in hospices located in Osnabrück/Germany and the Saint Cristopher’s Hospice in London/United
Kingdom; and present a discussion about the care mode. Methods: Experience report based on a post-doctoral research period
in Germany between November 2013 and October 2014, funded by the CAPES Foundation (Coordination for the Improvement of
Higher Education Personnel). Results: The structure, operation mode of the institutions and the main labor force were discussed,
especially the nursing staff and volunteers’ participation, the main care activities and challenges. These issues were very similar
at the hospices, highlighting the hospice responsible for spreading this moviment worldwide. Conclusion: The hospice may be
the place of death, but it provides a pleasant environment that preserves the person’s individuality and autonomy. It relies on the
participation of volunteers, dissemination of its idea and training programs, which ensure the strengthening of this movement.