Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

IT User Experience and Information Flow

Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

IT User Experience and Information Flow

Jim Heys, Yadira Ornelas, Jihyun Sun

Design Workshop: Healthcare Research, Judith Gregory, PhD, Advisor

Institute of Design, IIT

What is cardiac catheterization (Cardiac What is cardiac catheterization (Cardiac Cath)?Cath)?

A procedure that helps a doctor to see how the heart is working

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4491

Cardiologists insert a catheter into an artery in the arm or leg which leads to the heart.

Attending Cardiologist

Cardiology Fellow

Nurse(s) Technician

Cath Lab TeamCath Lab Team

Technician

Nurse(s)

Cardiologist

Fellow

Attending Cardiologist

Patient

AfterDuringBefore

Scrubs

Nurse

Station

Storage

Operating Table

Operating Room

Control Room

PreparingPerformingConcluding

Information Flow in Cath Data Information Flow in Cath Data CirculationCirculation

Cath Procedure

Inventory

Vital Signs and Chronological Log Data

Imaging System for Angiograms & others

Cath Lab IT Reporting Tool

Cath Lab Info. Flow

images

documents

Data

Billing and Cost Capture

Hospital Information System

CVIS(Cardio-Vascular Information System)

Finance and AccountingMedical Record & Coding

ACC RegistryQA & Benchmark

Clinical Research

Case StudyCase Study

Field Observation (February-December, 2007)Video and photographic documentation

In situ interviews

MethodologyMethodology

InstancesInstances

CommunicationCommunication

Double Check

Portable Data

Knock, Knock!Knock, Knock!

Blacking outBlacking out

SpaceSpace

Three is a crowd.

Uneasy Access

InformationTechnologyInformationTechnology

PrintedDocumentsPrintedDocuments

Hand-writtenNotebook

Hand-writtenNotebook

Generation Management Storage Distribution

Information FlowInformation Flow

ImplicationsImplications

Value for Cath team (Providers)

Value for patients

AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements

Rush Hospital, Chicago, IL University of Chicago Hospital, Chicago, IL

GE Healthcare

Thank you!