Model-Driven Process Guidance to Improve the Safety and Efficiency of Human-Intensive Healthcare Processes

通过系统建模研究项目推进卫生服务的研究目标是开发和评估卫生信息技术（IT）接口，这些接口可用于实时指导医疗保健提供者完成复杂，容易出错的输血过程。研究人员将确定如何设计界面，以最好地帮助个人安全地完成过程，并在过程失败或出现异常情况时有效地提醒和指导个人。研究人员将在现实的临床环境中使用基于实验室的评估和实验来开发和评估这些界面。该项目将为基于实时健康IT的流程指导系统的设计建立基本原则，以提高医疗保健流程的安全性和效率。 虽然健康IT有可能指导个人完成复杂的医疗保健流程，但它通常不灵活，迫使个人执行不理想，效率低下且可能不安全的流程。该项目有可能通过设计健康IT界面来大幅减少医疗错误，这些界面允许个人在完成流程的方式上具有灵活性，同时提供足够的指导以保持高水平的流程安全性。虽然该项目的重点是输血过程，但基本发现将推广到其他复杂的医疗保健过程。通过这个项目，研究生和本科生将由工程，计算机科学和护理教师组成的跨学科团队进行培训。通过该项目开发和评估的过程指导系统和界面将被集成到大学使用的临床模拟实验室练习中。的护理教育课程。

The research objective of this Advancing Health Services through System Modeling Research project is to develop and evaluate health information technology (IT) interfaces that can be used to guide healthcare providers in real-time as they complete the complex, error-prone blood transfusion process. The researchers will determine how the interfaces should be designed to best help individuals complete the process safely, and to effectively alert and guide individuals when process failures or exceptional situations arise. The researchers will develop and evaluate these interfaces using laboratory-based evaluations and experiments in a realistic clinical setting. This project will establish foundational principles for the design of real-time health IT-based process guidance systems that improve healthcare process safety and efficiency. While health IT has the potential to guide individuals completing complex healthcare processes, it is often inflexible, forcing individuals to perform non-ideal, inefficient, and potentially unsafe processes. This project has the potential to dramatically reduce medical errors by designing health IT interfaces that allow individuals flexibility in the way they complete processes, yet provide enough guidance to maintain a high level of process safety. While this project focuses on the blood transfusion process, the fundamental findings will be generalizable to other complex healthcare processes. Through this project, graduate and undergraduate students will be trained by an interdisciplinary team of engineering, computer science, and nursing faculty members. The process guidance system and interfaces developed and evaluated through this project will be integrated into clinical simulation laboratory exercises used in the university?s nursing education curriculum.