Observational studyJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Communication spaces.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Smartphones as multimodal communication devices to facilitate clinical knowledge processes: randomized controlled trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2013Trial
- Innovation bundles and platforms - a qualitative analysis of health system responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- A qualitative analysis of health service problems and the strategies used to manage them in the COVID-19 pandemic: exploiting generic and context-specific approaches.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- The standard problem.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023Article
- The forgetting health system.Learning health systems · 2017Article
- Engineering technology resilience through informatics safety science.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2017Article
- A New Informatics Geography.Yearbook of medical informatics · 2016Article
- The Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology Revisited.Yearbook of medical informatics · 2016Article
- Technology, cognition and error.BMJ quality & safety · 2015Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectiveAnnotations to physical workspaces such as signs and notes are ubiquitous. When densely annotated, work areas become communication spaces. This study aims to characterize the types and purpose of such annotations.
methodsA qualitative observational study was undertaken in two wards and the radiology department of a 440-bed metropolitan teaching hospital. Images were purposefully sampled; 39 were analyzed after excluding inferior images.
resultsAnnotation functions included signaling identity, location, capability, status, availability, and operation. They encoded data, rules or procedural descriptions. Most aggregated into groups that either created a workflow by referencing each other, supported a common workflow without reference to each other, or were heterogeneous, referring to many workflows. Higher-level assemblies of such groupings were also observed. DISCUSSION: Annotations make visible the gap between work done and the capability of a space to support work. Annotations are repairs of an environment, improving fitness for purpose, fixing inadequacy in design, or meeting emergent needs. Annotations thus record the missing information needed to undertake tasks, typically added post-implemented. Measuring annotation levels post-implementation could help assess the fit of technology to task. Physical and digital spaces could meet broader user needs by formally supporting user customization, 'programming through annotation'. Augmented reality systems could also directly support annotation, addressing existing information gaps, and enhancing work with context sensitive annotation.
conclusionsCommunication spaces offer a model of how work unfolds. Annotations make visible local adaptation that makes technology fit for purpose post-implementation and suggest an important role for annotatable information systems and digital augmentation of the physical environment.
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