A Workflow Framework for Health Management in Daily Living Settings

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2016:225:392-6.

Abstract

Daily-living settings are increasingly becoming care delivery settings, particularly for chronic conditions. Workflow studies can help understand care delivery in daily-living settings, but traditional frameworks originally developed for institutional settings may not be appropriate to study health management in daily-living settings. Based on a qualitative study of health management patterns among eight patients at an academic hospital anticoagulation clinic, we have developed a model for examining daily living setting-based workflow. This model can inform consumer informatics interventions.

MeSH terms

  • Activities of Daily Living*
  • Ambulatory Care / organization & administration*
  • Colorado
  • Delivery of Health Care / organization & administration
  • Female
  • Home Care Services / organization & administration*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Models, Organizational*
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / methods*
  • Workflow*