A patient-centered system in a provider-centered world: challenges of incorporating post-discharge wound data into practice.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The proposed Meaningful Use Stage 3 recommendations require healthcare providers to accept patient-generated health data (PGHD) by 2017. Yet, we know little about the tensions that arise in supporting the needs of both patients and providers in this context. We sought to examine these tensions when designing a novel, patient-centered technology - mobile Post-Operative Wound Evaluator (mPOWEr) - that uses PGHD for post-discharge surgical wound monitoring.

Materials and methods

As part of the iterative design process of mPOWEr, we conducted semistructured interviews and think-aloud sessions using mockups with surgical patients and providers. We asked participants how mPOWEr could enhance the current post-discharge process for surgical patients, then used grounded the

SUBMITTER: Sanger PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6375197 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature