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Supporting the Needs of Mobile Home Care Workers: A Case Study for Saskatoon District Health System

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2002)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 2338))

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Abstract

The problem addressed in this study is how to improve the access of homecare workers to information and to the other workers in the Saskatoon District Health using mobile devices. We propose an architecture, which offers the functionality of electronic health records and supports collaborative activities. Several typical tasks are supported: retrieving information from the system, notification for plan - or schedule-related changes, entering new data in the health records and communicating with other workers. Our approach focuses on optimizing information presentation and the selection of output channels based on the availability of the resources and knowledge about the context of the worker, e.g. the physical location, and the “activeness” of the device.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5A9, Canada

    Golha Sharifi, Julita Vassileva & Ralph Deters

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  1. Golha Sharifi
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  1. Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave.W., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1

    Robin Cohen

  2. IIT - e-Business, National Research Council, Incutech Brunswick, 2 Garland Court, Frederiction, New Brunswick, Canada, E3B 6C2

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Sharifi, G., Vassileva, J., Deters, R. (2002). Supporting the Needs of Mobile Home Care Workers: A Case Study for Saskatoon District Health System. In: Cohen, R., Spencer, B. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2338. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47922-8_34

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