Methods Inf Med 2008; 47(01): 4-7
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1625125
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Failure to Provide Clinicians Useful IT Systems: Opportunities to Leapfrog Current Technologies

Authors

  • M. J. Ball

    1   IBM Research Center for Healthcare Management and Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • J. S. Silva

    2   National Cancer Institute, Center for Bioinformatics, Eldersburg, MD, USA
  • S. Bierstock

    3   Founder & Principal, Champions in Healthcare, Delray Beach, FL, USA
  • J. V. Douglas

    4   Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • A. F. Norcio

    5   University of Maryland (UMBC), Department of Information Systems, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • J. Chakraborty

    5   University of Maryland (UMBC), Department of Information Systems, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • J. Srini

    6   University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Publikationsdatum:
18. Januar 2018 (online)

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Summary

Objective: To discuss why clinical information systems are failing.

Method: Subjectively analyzing the development of clinical IT systems during the last decades.

Results and Conclusions: The challenge is to anticipate what information clinicians need and then deliver it in a way that is tailored for their unique views. Clinicians need workstations that offer the highest level possible of user-determined flexibility and customization. We envision and outline a so-called point of care work station, automatically scaling to the display, hardware capacity, operating system, applications (local or distributed) the user needs and across diverse health IT systems.