Wound Care Documentation in Municipal Elderly Care
Hans Kyhlbäck, Hannes Persson · Birkhäuser Basel eBooks · 2003
This ongoing R&D project is about design of a peer-to-peer groupware aimed to support wound care documentation. Nurses decentralized control is recognized as a crucial factor for transition from a single paper print form to a distributed electronic case book. The use of digital photographs has been introduced revealing a developmental potential in this Swedish municipal elder care. In an evolutionary design approach the project is trying to accomplish a mapping between the work activity and the core features of the software system. An authorization layered model and peer membership rules are suggested and elaborated in the design work as key elements in a developed peer-to-peer network architecture. The article reports on utilizing ethnographic field studies and nurses participatory design work as contributions to the software development. The opportunity of improving work and learning by means of the peer-to-peer environment is discussed as additional aspects of software development work