TY - GEN
T1 - The temporal landscape of residential aged care facilities - implications for context-sensitive health technology
AU - Georgiou, Andrew
AU - Tariq, Amina
AU - Westbrook, Johanna I.
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PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Health information technology (IT) can have a profound effect on the temporal flow and organisation of work. Yet research into the context, meaning and significance of temporal factors remains limited, most likely because of its complexity. This study outlines the role of communications in the context of the temporal and organizational landscape of seven Australian residential aged care facilities displaying a range of information exchange practices and health IT capacity. The study used qualitative and observational methods to identify temporal factors associated with internal and external modes of communication across the facilities and to explore the use of artifacts. The study concludes with a depiction of the temporal landscape of residential aged care particularly in regards to the way that work is allocated, prioritized, sequenced and coordinated. We argue that the temporal landscape involves key context-sensitive factors that are critical to understanding the way that humans accommodate to, and deal with health technologies, and which are therefore important for the delivery of safe and effective care.
AB - Health information technology (IT) can have a profound effect on the temporal flow and organisation of work. Yet research into the context, meaning and significance of temporal factors remains limited, most likely because of its complexity. This study outlines the role of communications in the context of the temporal and organizational landscape of seven Australian residential aged care facilities displaying a range of information exchange practices and health IT capacity. The study used qualitative and observational methods to identify temporal factors associated with internal and external modes of communication across the facilities and to explore the use of artifacts. The study concludes with a depiction of the temporal landscape of residential aged care particularly in regards to the way that work is allocated, prioritized, sequenced and coordinated. We argue that the temporal landscape involves key context-sensitive factors that are critical to understanding the way that humans accommodate to, and deal with health technologies, and which are therefore important for the delivery of safe and effective care.
KW - Long term care
KW - Time
KW - Evaluation studies
KW - Communications
KW - Aged care informatics
KW - Organizational innovation
KW - TIME
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84901147274
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-293-6-69
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-293-6-69
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
C2 - 23941933
AN - SCOPUS:84901147274
SN - 9781614992929
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 69
EP - 74
BT - Context sensitive health informatics
A2 - Beuscart-Zéphir, Marie-Catherine
A2 - Jaspers, Monique
A2 - Kuziemsky, Craig
A2 - Nøhr, Christian
A2 - Aarts, Jos
PB - IOS Press
CY - Amsterdam
T2 - International Conference on Context Sensitive Health Informatics, Human and Sociotechnical Approaches
Y2 - 1 August 2013
ER -