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Medicine Tray Design and Security for Medication Administration Processes at Hospital Wards

Ranjita Pradhan, Natalia Díaz Rodríguez, Riitta Danielsson-Ojala, Hanna Pirinen, Lotta Hamari, Ilona Tuominen, Sanna Salanterä, Annamari Soini, Johan Lilius, Medicine Tray Design and Security for Medication Administration Processes at Hospital Wards. In: Audrey Girouard, David McGookin, Katie Siek, Orit Shaer, Marilyn Lennon, Peter Bennett (Eds.), CHI 2016 Tangibles for Health Workshop, 1–5, ACM, 2016.

Abstract:

Hospital ward nurses’ everyday tasks, such as filling trays
and dispensation of medicines to the patients, are stressful
and meticulous. Errors at various steps of filling and dis-
pensing medicines could lead to life-critical threats. These
errors need to be identified and analysed so that they can
be reduced and prevented to create a safer hospital ward.
We propose a medication tracking application named Smart
Dosing, and a tray design to support the tablet device run-
ning the application. The application is intended to integ-
rate different information systems into a single application,
as well as assist in medicine tray management. Keeping
the sensitivity and criticality of information being carried by
the tablet application in mind, a list of impending security
threats was provided.

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BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpPrDxDaPiHaTuSaSoLi16a,
  title = {Medicine Tray Design and Security for Medication Administration Processes at Hospital Wards},
  booktitle = {CHI 2016 Tangibles for Health Workshop},
  author = {Pradhan, Ranjita and Díaz Rodríguez, Natalia and Danielsson-Ojala, Riitta and Pirinen, Hanna and Hamari, Lotta and Tuominen, Ilona and Salanterä, Sanna and Soini, Annamari and Lilius, Johan},
  editor = {Girouard, Audrey and McGookin, David and Siek, Katie and Shaer, Orit and Lennon, Marilyn and Bennett, Peter},
  publisher = {ACM},
  pages = {1–5},
  year = {2016},
  keywords = {medicine tracking, design, medication error, security},
}

Belongs to TUCS Research Unit(s): Turku BioNLP Group, Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESLAB)

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