COSTT is a multidisciplinary health informatics research project that is funded by the VERDIKT program of the the Norwegian Research Council. COSTT will be conducted within the multidisciplinary health informatics research community at NTNU in close collaboration with the partners.
Proposal developers and principal investigators: Associate professor Pieter Toussaint (Project leader, NSEP and IDI, NTNU), Associate professor Arild Faxvaag (NSEP and Faculty of medicine, NTNU) and Research Scientist Andreas Seim (SINTEF Teknologi og samfunn).
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August 4th, 2010
At the 35th 4S Annual Meeting (Tokyo, August 25 – 29, 2010) several COSTT-researchers will be presenting work.
Postdoc. Line Melby will be presenting
“Tracing associations of the unforeseen in clinical work”
while Prof. Pieter Toussaint and PhD Candidate Ero Karlsen will be presenting
“Communication-mediating technologies in the hospital; exploring adoption and domestication strategies”
The following week (September 2 – 4, 2010), the 22nd International Conference of Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (SMIT 2010) is taking place in Trondheim, where several more COSTT-researchers will participate.
PhD Candidate Børge Lillebo (with co-authors Arild Faxvaag and Andreas R. Seim) will be presenting
“Supporting real time adjustments to perioperative work”
PhD Candidate Andreas D. Landmark (with co-authors Andreas R. Seim and Pieter Toussaint) will be presenting
“Use of events in clinical software”
Postdoc Andreas Seim will be presenting:
“Improving operating Room Logistics at a Norwegian University Hospital”
Postdoc Line Melby (with co-author Berit J. Brattheim) will be presenting
“Ensuring patient values in the development of hospital information systems” (poster)
See you there!
Ps!
COSTT-researchers will also be at HelsIT (The Norwegian Healthcare Informatics Week, in Trondheim) in September, too. More information later…
March 18th, 2010
COSTT participants have produced several conference contributions to The 21st Annual Conference of The Production and Operations Management Society in Vancouver and to The 13th International Congress on Medical Informatics in Cape Town later this summer.
POMS
AR Seim, Landmark AD., Lillebo B., Faxvaag A., Sandberg WS., Toussaint PJ. (2010) Creating Real-time Transparency in Hospital Processes
B Lillebo, Økland A., Amdahl E., Seim A. (2010) A Framework for Transparency
MedInfo
TB. Iversen, Melby L., Toussaint PJ. (2010) Patient Trajectories and the Coordination of Work.
ES. Karlsen, Toussaint PJ. (2010) Peri-operative Communication Patterns and Media Usage — Implications for Systems Design
B. Lillebo, Seim AR., Faxvaag A. (2010) Situated Coordination of Healthcare Professionals: A Field Study of Operating Room Personnel.
(links to full papers currently not available)
February 10th, 2010
Yesterday, 10 healthcare workers joined the COSTT team for a 4-hour workshop in the two future operating rooms at St. Olav for a workshop on how they coordinate their work. The participants engaged in discussions, role-play and lego simulations of scenarios where new technology could help in their daily work. Participants included surgeons, anaesthetists, scrub nurses, nurse anaesthetists and technicians all of whom daily work in the peri-operative departments at St. Olavs.
Børge Lillebo and Andreas D. Landmark in discussions over the Lego models
February 4th, 2010
When will the operation in OR 3 finish? When does the next patient arrive at the post-anesthesia care unit? Has the patient arrived at the OR? Will the patient be operated today as planned or does he have to wait until tomorrow?
Hospital workers ask such questions all the time. COSTT tries to develop IT-tools for supporting the distribution of such information when and where it is needed. But when and where is it needed? These are some of the questions we want the experts to help us answering – and that is why we are arranging a workshop 9th of February 2010 at the Operating Room of the Future.
December 20th, 2009
Dr Sandbergs Trial Lecture
The Thematic Strategic Area of Medical Technology at NTNU has appointed Dr. Warren S. Sandberg a Guest Professor at NTNU. The COSTT project is enthusiastic about being able to collaborate with such distiguished researchers such as Dr. Sandberg.
During Dr. Sandbergs visit in December the COSTT-project arranged a research retreat to Oppdals Utistu where we attempted to create ties to both Dr. Sandbergs research and other invited researchers. Dr. Sandberg held his trial lecture, titled “Asset Tracking to Create Transparency in the Medical Environment” the 8th. of December 2009.
More recently Dr. Sandberg was appointed Chair of Anesthesia at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre (VUMC). We look forward to continued co-operation with Dr. Sandberg and the research community at VUMC.
Dr. Sandberg, Børge Lillebo from COSTT and Andreas Økland of Sintef in discussion
