A master thesis from Aalborg University
How to make the impossible, possible: Facilitating a shared healthcare system based on user perspectives
Author(s)
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2020
Submitted on
2020-06-03
Pages
803 pages
Abstract
This student report summarises a Techno-Anthropological Master’s thesis with focus upon data availability and sharing across the three Danish out-of-hours healthcare services. The research is undertaken in collaboration with Center for Prehospital and Emergency Research. We aimed to study how patient data availability is experienced, and how potential sharing of patient data is described among healthcare clinicians working in the three Danish out-of-hours healthcare services as well as IT relevant individuals. In the study, we employ a qualitative approach and take a methodological standpoint in ethnographic methods by performing participatory observations and carry out semi-structured interviews. For analysing empirical data, we will take inspiration from Grounded Theory and develop an analytical framework. Furthermore, we will use the concept of boundary objects as preliminary interpretation of electronic medical records. In the report we conclude that the healthcare clinicians working in the three Danish out-of-hours healthcare services experience the current patient data availability to be sufficient, yet with room for improvement. Potentially sharing patient data across healthcare settings is described to require arrangement of data that involve aggregated, structured, and standardized patient data, hence avoiding information-overload.
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