Clinician Perspectives on Unmet Needs for Mobile Technology Among Hospitalists: Workflow Analysis Based on Semistructured Interviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The hospitalist workday is cognitively demanding and dominated by activities away from patients' bedsides. Although mobile technologies are offered as solutions, clinicians report lower expectations of mobile technology after actual use.

Objective

The purpose of this study is to better understand opportunities for integrating mobile technology and apps into hospitalists' workflows. We aim to identify difficult tasks and contextual factors that introduce inefficiencies and characterize hospitalists' perspectives on mobile technology and apps.

Methods

We conducted a workflow analysis based on semistructured interviews. At a Midwestern US medical center, we recruited physicians and nurse practitioners from hospitalist and inpatient teaching teams and internal

SUBMITTER: Savoy A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8767475 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature