Toward an integrated health data display for aging in place

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2014:201:233-40.

Abstract

In a typical aging-in-place setting, electronic medical record, telemedicine data, and sensor data are used by different groups of decision makers, but the data may not be viewed in a holistic display to promote clinical decision making. Employing a user-centered design and evaluation framework, we analyzed relational data displays of congestive heart failure and provided an in-depth description of user characteristics, preferences, systems functionality, basic tasks and effective representations in such an information distributed setting. As a result, the prototypical design demonstrates our effort toward an integrated data display for chronic disease management in long-term care and clinical decision support which would enhance aging in place.

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Data Display*
  • Decision Support Systems, Clinical / organization & administration
  • Electronic Health Records / organization & administration*
  • Female
  • Geriatric Assessment / methods*
  • Heart Failure / diagnosis*
  • Heart Failure / therapy*
  • Humans
  • Information Dissemination / methods
  • Male
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / methods
  • Systems Integration
  • Telemedicine / organization & administration*
  • User-Computer Interface*