Annotation management: a Group decision support system for nurses tasks

Abstract

International audienceWe develop a 5-year empirical investigation that is giving us broad and deep insights to characterise activity management in the palliative ward of an oncology hospital, and offer effective support for group decision-making and collaborative activity of caregivers. Following this observation period, we propose a software prototype based upon annotations in which dealing with patients’ state and evolution is a complex organisational task. We based our conception of an annotation tool on the observations of the rich writing practices of medical professionals. We rely on the innovative strategy of intermediate management to introduce a new technology able to bridge heterogeneous, valuable data flows that addresses both management support and activity support in a single tool

Big Data and the Study of Social Inequalities in Health: Expectations and Issues

“…Indeed such tools may not be used by everyone, and may exclude some parts of the population that may be particularly important to consider for studying social inequalities in health, or not used in the same manner which can have an impact on their completeness. Sociological studies that followed the implementation of informatics tools for health professionals showed that entire sections of the information needed for care continued to circulate in written form ( 13 ). Such “dark data” ( 12 ) will not be available in an analysis labeled as Big Data showing that the advent of Big Data approaches does not solve the problem of data representativeness and completeness, bias, measurement error.…”