Activity Theory Analysis of Heart Failure Self-Care

The management of chronic health conditions such as heart failure is a complex process emerging from the activity of a network of individuals and artifacts. This article presents an Activity Theory-based secondary analysis of data from a geriatric heart failure management study. Twenty-one patients' interviews and clinic visit observations were analyzed to uncover eight configurations of roles and activities involving patients, clinicians, and others in the sociotechnical network. For each configuration or activity pattern, we identify points of tension and propose guidelines for developing interventions for future computer-supported healthcare systems

mobileWAY – A system to reduce the feeling of temporary lonesomeness of persons with dementia and to foster inter-caregiver collaboration

This paper presents mobileWAY (mobile Where Are You), a system that enables caregivers of persons with dementia (PwD) to remotely display dynamic, customized and illustrated information on the home television of the PwD. In particular, caregivers can, through the use of a mobile device, provide information about their identity, their whereabouts and the time remaining until they return to the house of the PwD. When adequate, caregivers can also define an entertainment activity for the PwD. The development of mobileWAY followed an iterative and incremental user-centered design approach. Semi-structured interviews with nine informal and two professional caregivers furthered a literature review and a competitive analysis of the research projects around this scope. Building upon these, a low-fidelity prototype was created and iterated twice through usability testing with seven PwD and fourteen caregivers. Results show that PwD comprehend the displayed information and caregivers effectively use and recognize the usefulness of mobileWAY

The Trajectory of IT in Healthcare at HICSS: A Literature Review, Analysis, and Future Directions

Research has extensively demonstrated that healthcare industry has rapidly implemented and adopted information technology in recent years. Research in health information technology (HIT), which represents a major component of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, demonstrates similar findings. In this paper, review the literature to better understand the work on HIT that researchers have conducted in HICSS from 2008 to 2017. In doing so, we identify themes, methods, technology types, research populations, context, and emerged research gaps from the reviewed literature. With much change and development in the HIT field and varying levels of adoption, this review uncovers, catalogs, and analyzes the research in HIT at HICSS in this ten-year period and provides future directions for research in the field