Collaborative Affordances of Medical Records

Bardram, Jakob and Houben, Steven (2018) Collaborative Affordances of Medical Records. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 27 (1). pp. 1-36. ISSN 0925-9724

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Abstract

This article proposes the concept of Collaborative Affordances to describe physical and digital properties (i.e., affordances) of an artifact, which affords coordination and collaboration in work. Collaborative Affordances build directly on Gibson (1977)’s affordance concept and extends the work by Sellen and Harper (2003) on the affordances of physical paper. Sellen and Harper describe how the physical properties of paper affords easy reading, navigation, mark-up, and writing, but focuses, we argue, mainly on individual use of paper and digital technology. As an extension to this, Collaborative Affordances focusses on the properties of physical and digital artifacts that affords collaborative activities. We apply the concept of Collaborative Affordances to the study of paper-based and electronic patient records in hospitals and detail how they afford collaboration through four types of Collaborative Affordances; being portable across patient wards and the entire hospital, by providing collocated access, by providing a shared overview of medical data, and by giving clinicians ways to maintain mutual awareness. We then discuss how the concept of Collaborative Affordances can be used in the design of new technology by providing a design study of a ‘Hybrid Patient Record’ (HyPR), which is designed to seamlessly blend and integrate paper-based with electronic patient records.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Additional Information:
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9298-5
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700
Subjects:
?? COLLABORATIVE AFFORDANCESPAPER RECORDSELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDSHYBRID PATIENT RECORDCLINICAL WORKCOMPUTER SCIENCE(ALL) ??
ID Code:
88012
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Deposited On:
06 Oct 2017 19:38
Refereed?:
Yes
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Published
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15 Sep 2023 00:37