COSTT is chairing a parallel session (mostly in Norwegian) on “Event oriented architectures and systems for healthcare”.

The session is Thursday (day 2), 29th of September – 13:00-16:00.

Parallellsesjon 5B: Hendelsesorienterte arkitekturer og systemer for Helsetjenesten

Hendelses-orienterte arkitekturer og systemer – bakgrunn og introduksjon
Professor Pieter Toussaint, IDI, NTNU

Several COSTT-affiliated researchers will be presenting their research at MIE in Oslo:

Privacy & Security (Mon: 11:30)
Personal Health Information on Display: Balancing Needs, Usability and Legislative Requirements
Erlend Andreas Gjære, Inger Anne Tøndel, Maria B Line, Herbjørn Andresen, Pieter Toussaint

Electronic Health Record, Workflow, Intra- and Interorganizational collaboration (Wed: 11:30)
When Information Sharing is not Enough
Berit Brattheim, Arild Faxvaag, Pieter Toussaint

Information and communication needs of healthcare workers in the perioperative domain
Børge Lillebo, Andreas Seim, Arild Faxvaag

See you there!

Erlend Andreas Gjære has over the last year worked on his Master’s thesis with researchers from the COSTT-project – culminating in an article to be presented at the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE)-conference in August. Erlend’s Master’s thesis has looked at the balance between usefullness, privacy and usability in the display of status information on wall-mounted displays, exploring methods such as de-identification and how this affects the usefullness of the information. Whiteboards have been used for a long time, but replacing these with electronic equivalents introduce new possibilities as well as new challenges…

Look out for Personal Health Information on Display: Balancing Needs, Usability and Legislative Requirements
(Erlend A. GJÆRE, Inger Anne TØNDEL, Maria B. LINE, Herbjørn ANDRESEN, and Pieter TOUSSAINT)

Line Melby and Pieter Toussaint just published an article “Coping with the unforeseen in surgical work.” (Int. J. Medical Informatics, available as ePub ahead of print). The article describes a case study of how staff in the preoperative domain copes with unforeseen events and how this is supported by the systems they use.
Additionally putting this into the context of high-reliability organizations to evaluate various observed strategies for dealing with such occurrences.

Additionally the article was picked up by Dagens Medisin (a Norwegian newspaper for the healthcare sector) which did an interview with the two authors and a brief coverage of the pilot of Cetrea running in the Emergency & Heart-Lung Centre at St. Olavs Hospital.

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Yesterday the COSTT Project in collaboration with research partner St. Olavs Hospital and industrial partner Cetrea A/S went live with a deployment of the cooperation support software Cetrea Surgical at selected departments in St. Olavs Hospital.

This implementation includes touch screens in 5 ORs, 5 wards, Post-Op, the observational unit, and in several locations in the acute center. The pilot will run until the summer to facilitate an evaluation of such ICT-support for coordination.

The startup was also covered by the St. Olavs internal newspaper (in Norwegian) and in an announcement by Cetrea (in Danish).