HealthMap: a visual platform for patient suicide risk review


Autoria(s): Rana, Santu; Luo, Wei; Tran, Truyen; Phung, Dinh; Venkatesh, Svetha; Harvey, Richard
Contribuinte(s)

Barbuto, Katrina

Schaper, Louise

Verspoor, Karin

Data(s)

01/01/2014

Resumo

Misjudging suicide risk can be fatal. Risk assessment is complicated by multiplicity of risk factors, none of which individually can reliably predict risk. This paper addresses the need for better clinical support, visualising risk factors scattered in raw electronic medical records. HealthMap is a visual tool that helps clinicians effectively examine patient histories during a suicide risk assessment. We characterise the information visualisation problems accompanying suicide risk assessments. A design driven by visualisation principles was implemented. The prototype was evaluated by clinicians and accepted into daily clinical work-flow.

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30072803

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Relação

http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30072803/rana-healthmapavisual-2014.pdf

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1149/bd2014_venkatesh.pdf

Direitos

2014, The Authors

Tipo

Conference Paper