Multidisciplinary medical team meetings: A field study of collaboration in health care

Jane Li; Toni Robertson; Susan Hansen; Tim Mansfield; Jesper Kjeldskov

doi:10.1145/1517744.1517766

Multidisciplinary medical team meetings: A field study of collaboration in health care

Jane Li, Toni Robertson, Susan Hansen, Tim Mansfield, Jesper Kjeldskov

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Abstract

We present an observational study that was conducted to guide the design of an enhanced collaboration platform to support distributed multidisciplinary team meetings between two hospitals. Our goal was to find out how the breast cancer multidisciplinary team collaborates in their face-to-face meetings and in their discussions using an existing videoconferencing system and to identify obstacles and issues to their primary tasks. We identified a set of concerns around the way visibility and audibility affect the social cohesion of the group and impede communication and situation awareness between the distributed team. We also identified a parallel set of concerns around the difficulty of preparing and interacting around the medical images used in the meetings. These issues exposed a complex matrix of technical, social, procedural and organisational factors that affect the collaboration. We suggest potential directions for technical interventions in this setting.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction
Subtitle of host publication	Designing for Habitus and Habitat, OZCHI'08
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	73-80
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	0980306345, 9780980306347
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1517744.1517766
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	Australian Computer Human Interaction Conference 2008 - Cairns, Australia Duration: 8 Dec 2008 → 12 Dec 2008 Conference number: 20th https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1517744 (Conference Proceedings)

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Conference	Australian Computer Human Interaction Conference 2008
Abbreviated title	OZCHI 2008
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Cairns
Period	8/12/08 → 12/12/08
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1517744 (Conference Proceedings)

Keywords

Distributed collaboration
Field study
Multidisciplinary team

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Li, J., Robertson, T., Hansen, S., Mansfield, T., & Kjeldskov, J. (2008). Multidisciplinary medical team meetings: A field study of collaboration in health care. In Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat, OZCHI'08 (pp. 73-80). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/1517744.1517766

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Li, J, Robertson, T, Hansen, S, Mansfield, T & Kjeldskov, J 2008, Multidisciplinary medical team meetings: A field study of collaboration in health care. in Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat, OZCHI'08. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 73-80, Australian Computer Human Interaction Conference 2008, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 8/12/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1517744.1517766

Multidisciplinary medical team meetings: A field study of collaboration in health care. / Li, Jane; Robertson, Toni; Hansen, Susan et al.
Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat, OZCHI'08. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2008. p. 73-80.

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