Category Archives: EHR Workflow

Adaptive Case Management, Clinical Groupware, and Routine vs. Non-Routine Workflow in Pediatric Practice

By chuckwebster | Published: April 23, 2010

Shot Link: http://j.mp/bNdXHu
I recently attended the Process.gov conference, specifically to attend a track about Adaptive Case Management. Before I tell you about adaptive case management and its relevance to clinical groupware and pediatric workflow, here’s some background and why I went.
Clinical groupware applications arrange along a spectrum from informal and ad-hoc groupware collaboration tools to [...]

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Tweeting Live from Process.gov: The BPM in Government Conference, April 14-15, 2010, Reston, VA: Looking for the Healthcare Angle

By chuckwebster | Published: April 11, 2010

Short Link: http://j.mp/cUzpAf

Process.gov has four topic areas: State and Local, Defense and Intel, Civilian and Health, as well as Integration and Deployment. I’m looking for innovative current and future potential uses for business process management in healthcare.

Here are the most recent tweets from @EMRGroupware: Auxiliary account used by @chuckwebster for real-time, high-frequency, event-related Twittering (not [...]

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Will the Apple iPad Force Healthcare to Finally Abandon Outmoded User Interface Designs?

By chuckwebster | Published: April 10, 2010

Short Link: http://j.mp/cbQP2c
I can’t leave the iPad alone, literally or figuratively (how many EMR users can say *that* about their EMR?). Last week I explored the relationship between EMR/EHR/clinical groupware contextual usability and process awareness. This week I consider the following apparent contradiction:
Most reviewers agree that the iPad is optimized for content consumption, not content [...]

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Contextual Usability, My Apple iPad, and Process-Aware Clinical Groupware for Pediatric Practice

By chuckwebster | Published: April 3, 2010

Short Link: http://j.mp/dbhBvw
Apple started selling iPads today. I bought one. I published this post from it.
There’s an important relationship between

iPad-like form factors, task-at-a-time workflow, and contextual usability in mobile settings on one hand and
process-aware clinical groupware for pediatric practice (AKA pediatric EMR workflow systems) on the other hand.

I’ll use as a springboard Todd Biske’s Context [...]

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Clinical Groupware as Clinical Teamware for Pediatric and Primary Care Practice

By chuckwebster | Published: March 13, 2010

Short Link: http://j.mp/bUmHkC
A great pediatrician or primary care physician (family medicine, obstetrics & gynecology, or general internal medicine) is caring, attentive, available and knowledgeable; a great pediatric or primary care office is full of people with these qualities; and a great pediatric or primary care EMR/EHR (electronic medical/health record) allows the doctor and staff to [...]

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