During the first day of the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) Conference Åsa Cajander and I presented the paper that was introduced in this blog post. Actually, this was the first presentation held by representatives from the HTO group during this year’s combined MIE/Vitalis event, but certainly not the last – we were active on stage, or as workshop leaders, during each and every day!
This particular presentation was based on a study that was conducted within the scope of a master’s thesis project at Uppsala University by Sara Englund and Anastasia Hansman. The project focused on the Swedish patient accessible electronic health record system Journalen (and hence was tightly connected to the DOME consortium) and more specifically on how nurses see that Journalen has affected their work environment and their communication with patients.
The result of the semi-structured interviews conducted with the nurses at a primary care center in Region Uppsala, first of all showed similar as our earlier interviews with physicians – Journalen has changed the interaction with patients, created an increased workload and created uncertainty regarding when to inform patients of results now that the patients can read even unsigned notes. Even though most of the results were in line with results from our earlier research in DOME, one new theme arose from the interview analysis – the need for new knowledge. Several nurses indicated that education was needed, focusing on how Journalen should be used both by patients and in the clinician-patient relationship. This is an important result, which should be taken very seriously.
All conference papers are published open access, so you can find all research presented at MIE here. You can find the paper that Åsa and I presented here.
Stay tuned for more posts about the HTO activities at MIE/Vitalis 2018! 🙂
- New article published about the effects of patient accessible electronic health records on the work environment of oncology healthcare professionals - October 26, 2019
- Two studies published on the effects of patient accessible electronic health records - November 20, 2018
- Presentation by Åsa Cajander and Jonas Moll at Medical Informatics Europe - May 7, 2018
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