Exploratory Co-Design on Electronic Health Record Nursing Summaries: Case Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although electronic health record nursing summaries aim to provide a concise overview of patient data, they often fall short of meeting nurses' information needs, leading to underutilization. This gap arises from a lack of involvement of nurses in the design of health information technologies.

Objective

The purpose of this exploratory co-design case study was to solicit insights from nurses regarding nursing summary design considerations, including key information types and the preferred design prototype.

Methods

We recruited clinical nurses (N=33) from 7 inpatient units at a university hospital in the Midwestern United States using a purposive sampling method. We used images from a simulated nursing summary to generate visual card versions of the 46 inform

SUBMITTER: Park S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11918977 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature