Abstract
In a health care environment, in which task planning process is fundamentally a collaborative task that requires the participation of many health care professionals with different skills working simultaneously on same cases. However, most recent healthcare research has focused on methods mainly based on communication, rather than collaboration supports. We followed then a CSCW-based planning approach which constitutes an evolution of planning environments toward new shared workspaces supporting collaboration. Our work led us first, to analyse the related tasks in an Algerian maternity ward in order to highlight the vital collaborative medical tasks that need to be modelled. The following sections outline basic design concepts of our mobile collaborative planning system, which is designed to provide a flexible group interaction support for care coordination and continuity.
Highlights
In healthcare planning, the need of collaboration is well recognized [1] and it seems obvious that such task remains hard to be individually completed
We started by analysing the planning process and attempted to understand how health care professionals may elaborate plans, and what happens when this work is done with a team of collaborators
Which computer tools may provide the required assistance for the medical staff members and get them to work collaboratively?
Summary
The need of collaboration is well recognized [1] and it seems obvious that such task remains hard to be individually completed. It is important to well identify which users are implied in such process Such understanding will undoubtedly allow us to provide the adequate design by addressing the following interrogations:. Group work experiences provide us pertinent information to clarify some useful development ideas about suitable support tools. The experimentation of these tools thereafter, will unveil obstacles to overcome as well as perspectives to follow. The main objective of this paper is to present the mobile collaborative system CPMS supporting healthcare planning activities. We will first introduce the notion of collaborative planning and review the main works achieved in this area. Perspectives of the accomplished work are presented in the conclusion of the paper
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