The role of technology in video-mediated consensus meetings

Groth, Kristina; Olin, Kemal; Gran, Ola; Permert, Johan

doi:10.1258/jtt.2008.007006

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“…Connected with the cases, the images have been found to be central to the information shared among the oral medicine clinicians, and similar conclusions have been reached by Groth et al (2008).…”

Section: It Support For Distributed Clinical Copssupporting

confidence: 55%

Collaboration processes, outcomes, challenges and enablers of distributed clinical communities of practice

Friberger

Falkman

2013

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Modern healthcare's need for knowledge sharing and bridging the researchpractice-gap requires new forms of collaboration, in which clinicians of varying clinical and research expertise work together over geographical and organisational borders. To support such distributed communities of practice (CoPs), an understanding of their collaboration processes, outcomes, challenges, and enablers is needed. The paper examines these issues through a case study of a long-running CoP, the Swedish Oral Medicine Network (SOMNet). SOMNet's main form of collaboration is monthly telephone conference meetings centred on case consultations. Cases are submitted by the clinicians via a Web-based system. The methods used were interviews, observations, and a questionnaire.The work adds to previous research by studying a distributed CoP explicitly focused on supporting the transfer of scientific results from researchers to practitioners.We found that the regular meetings give a rhythm to the community. The centrality of cases means an immediate benefit for the submitter while the share an overarching goal of general improvement and harmonisation of patient care.However, the present study focuses on distributed collaboration where there are more than two types of participants, which sets it apart from the common format of teleconsultations. The studied distributed CoP makes the case discussions available to a larger group of clinicians, while adding challenges related to handling a larger and heterogeneous group. This study also has commonalities with the format of the MDTM, but without the emphasis on the coordination between the different roles and disciplines involved in caring for a specific patient, and with more loosely coupled participants.Within the studied collaboration, there is little variation with respect to the discipline, but much variation in the other aspects, such as degree of specialisation, experience, focus on clinical work or on research, access to external evidence, location, and level of partici- 2004). Third, given that the single previously studied CoP aimed at sharing knowledge among researchers and practitioners is based on the sending of emails between com-

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Section: It Support For Distributed Clinical Copssupporting

confidence: 55%

Collaboration processes, outcomes, challenges and enablers of distributed clinical communities of practice

Friberger

Falkman

2013

Behaviour & Information Technology

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“…Multi-disciplinary teams in modern healthcare are facilitating the discussion of patients, decisions on diagnosis and treatment, operation planning, interventions and surgery [5,7,9,15,10,20,6]. The medical specialists participating in the meetings are not always located in the same facilities, or even city, whereby tele-or videoconferencing is frequently used.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several researchers report on detailed field studies of MDTMs [e.g., 5,6,7,8,9,11]. Time is an important aspect when judging the efficiency of the meeting [7,5] and supporting technology must take this into account, as well as specific participant roles [6].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Time is an important aspect when judging the efficiency of the meeting [7,5] and supporting technology must take this into account, as well as specific participant roles [6]. Although some problems regarding efficiency and effects on the group work process were likely to arise, Kane and Luz [7] acknowledge the need for technology for collaborative decision-making.…”

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Design and Evaluation of Interaction Technology for Medical Team Meetings

Olwal

Frykholm

Groth

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Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011

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Abstract. Multi-disciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) are essential in healthcare, where medical specialists discuss diagnosis and treatment of patients. We introduce a prototype multi-display groupware system, intended to augment the discussions of medical imagery, through a range of input mechanisms, multiuser interfaces and interaction techniques on multi-touch devices and pen-based technologies. Observations of MDTMs, as well as interviews and observations of surgeons and radiologists, serve as a foundation for guidelines and a set of implemented techniques. We present a detailed analysis of a study where the techniques' potential was explored with radiologists and surgeons of different specialties and varying expertise. The results show that the implemented technologies have the potential to bring numerous benefits to the team meetings with minimal modification to the current workflow. We discuss how they can augment the expressiveness and communication between meeting participants, facilitate understanding for novices, and improve remote collaboration.

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“…Other studies of videoconferencing within health informatics cover a broad spectrum of clinical applications, being concerned with communication between healthcare professionals and patients (18,19), communication between two or more healthcare professionals (20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25), and communication for the purpose of education and training of healthcare professionals (17,26,27). Demeris et al (18) describe the use of videoconferencing for remote dermatology consultations.…”

Section: Videoconferencing In Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%