Abstract
Modern health information systems must be able to represent and reason about work-processes, roles, tasks and interaction in order to provide relevant and timely support. However, commonly used models of work and interaction does not address the details of everyday clinical collaborative communication. If we are to design clinical information systems that support processes, we have to deal with the reality as perceived by the clinician: A puzzle of information and communication about patients, decisions and events. We have identified that it is important to support and represent the dialogue between one or more users and systems.
This paper introduces the session as a representation of such dialogues. The session is a sharable, referable, persistent representation of the dialogue between persons and systems. Features of systems that support sessions are explained through example scenarios. The analysis proposes a set of requirements for session-aware clinical information systems.
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Nytrø, Ø., Sørby, I.D., Alsos, O.A. (2009). Session-Aware Clinical Information Systems. In: Ardagna, D., Mecella, M., Yang, J. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00328-8_39
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