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Supporting Frontline Health Workers Through the Use of a Mobile Collaboration Tool

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Health Information Science (HIS 2015)

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This paper presents our work in exploring the design of a mobile collaboration tool to support frontline health workers who deliver healthcare services at local communities and patients’ homes. Our design addresses their collaboration needs when they discuss patient cases with remote clinicians during the home visits. The tool is tablet-based and supports real-time communication and information sharing between health workers and clinicians and also asynchronous information exchange between them through the recording of rich media annotations. We present preliminary results from a pilot study examining the usability of the tool.

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  1. CSIRO Digital Productivity Flagship, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW, 1710, Australia

    Jane Li

  2. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    Leila Alem

  3. University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia

    Weidong Huang

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Xiaoxia Yin

  2. Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Kendall Ho

  3. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    Daniel Zeng

  4. University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Uwe Aickelin

  5. Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Rui Zhou

  6. Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Hua Wang

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Li, J., Alem, L., Huang, W. (2015). Supporting Frontline Health Workers Through the Use of a Mobile Collaboration Tool. In: Yin, X., Ho, K., Zeng, D., Aickelin, U., Zhou, R., Wang, H. (eds) Health Information Science. HIS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9085. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19156-0_4

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