Digi-Care: Exploring the Impacts of Digitization on Nursing Work in Switzerland

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 May 16:292:57-62. doi: 10.3233/SHTI220321.

Abstract

In this paper we present first findings of the Digi-Care project, a multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder research project investigating the impacts of digitization on nursing work practices and in particular the transmission of patient care information within and beyond nursing work practices. We completed the initial data collection of the funded 3-year research project and report on a plethora of significant and critical IT-related events. Some of them can be attributed to usability issues.

Keywords: EPR systems; IT usability; Information Exchange in care settings; evaluation.

MeSH terms

  • Data Collection
  • Humans
  • Research Design*
  • Switzerland