Rimmert van der Kooij Empower healthcare workers, with the right organizational and IT support Main objective: “How can the activities performed by both health care workers and patients in care situations be enhanced by digital aids?”

Subobjectives Identify which kind of areas (logistical, process, organizational) a healthcare worker can be supported with (new) technology. Identify where harmful boundaries need to be considered technology wise, e.g. privacy. Analyze which new technology can enable disruptive change in the way healthcare currently is organized.

RQs What are well known failure points for IT systems in Healthcare? Which boundaries are the cause for non-implementation of IT systems? What kind of digitally enhanced healthcare worker systems are there? Which new technologies are developed, but not used yet, that can enable/increase the implementation of aids for healthcare workers? What kind of developments are there within Information systems that can help the technological implementation of healthcare worker centred systems?

Research methods Literature review regarding evaluations of decision support / aids for healthcare workers (non-clinical) Observations Interviews Case study