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A Practice-oriented Approach to Participatory Design

Authors:
Øivind Skeidsvoll Solvang
Sonja Cassidy
Ove Lintvedt
Conceição Granja
Terje Solvoll

Keywords: Participatory Design; Practice Theory; Health information systems

Abstract:
Active user involvement is crucial to designing a Health Information System (HIS) consistent with users’ expectations and needs. Many design projects use Participatory Design (PD), involving users as active co-designers, to promote the democratization of work and empower the workers. While this design approach has worked in local contexts, there is an open question on how to broaden participatory design to healthcare networks in need for coordinating their services for patient-centric care. In patient-centric healthcare, various providers at different healthcare levels must coordinate their actions. In this paper, we discuss different challenges when PD applies to a healthcare network and how practice-oriented approaches can contribute to mitigating these challenges.

Pages: 93 to 98

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2022

Publication date: June 26, 2022

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-984-3

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from June 26, 2022 to June 30, 2022