Situation Awareness Failure Factors: Characteristics of Barriers to Situation Awareness in Primary Care & Implications

Ahmed Mohammed Patel, Talya Porat, Weston L. Baxter

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Abstract

General Practitioners (GPs) report frustration in locating, customising and prioritising data in Electronic Health Records, which impairs their situation awareness (SA) and consequently impacts decision making and quality of care. Gaining SA in primary care before and during the clinical consultation is challenging, mainly due to barriers including time constraints, fragmented data, limitations in GP-patient interaction, usability issues of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and information overload. This is enhanced with an increasing ageing population, and patients with multimorbidity. Timely and effective communication of information through data visualizations and visual analytics are promising avenues to address some of the GPs situation awareness needs and barriers, potentially supporting clinicians in making more accurate and rapid decisions. In this paper we propose a taxonomy of situation awareness failure factors in Primary Gare, based on interviews with Primary Care GPs and Endsley's SA error taxonomy. We then discuss design implications towards enhancing situation awareness in Primary Care when using EHR systems, supporting the potential of holistic visualisations to enhance SA before and during the clinical consultation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages505-509
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9798350302639
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event11th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2023 - Houston, United States
Duration: 26 Jun 202329 Jun 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2023

Conference

Conference11th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHouston
Period26/06/2329/06/23

Keywords

  • Data Visualization
  • Decision Making
  • Electronic Health Record
  • General Practitioner
  • GP
  • Holistic
  • Information Visualization
  • Primary Care
  • Situation Awareness

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Health Informatics

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