Navigating Digital Tools in Hospitals: Practical Recommendations for New Users from a Qualitative Interview Study (Preprint) DOI
Marie Wosny, Livia Maria Strasser, Simone Kraehenmann

et al.

Published: May 1, 2024

BACKGROUND The digitalization of health care organizations is an integral part a clinician’s daily life, making it vital for professionals (HCPs) to understand and effectively use digital tools in hospital settings. However, clinicians often express lack preparedness their work environments. Particularly, new clinical end users, encompassing medical nursing students, seasoned transitioning environments, experienced practitioners encountering technologies, face critically intense learning periods, with adequate time tools, resulting difficulties integrating adopting these into practice<i>.</i> OBJECTIVE This study aims comprehensively collect advice from HCPs Switzerland guide users on how initiate engagement ITs within METHODS We conducted qualitative interviews 52 across Switzerland, representing 24 specialties 14 hospitals. were transcribed verbatim analyzed through inductive thematic analysis. Codes developed iteratively, themes aggregated dimensions refined collaborative discussions. RESULTS Ten emerged the interview data, namely (1) tool understanding, (2) peer-based strategies, (3) experimental approaches, (4) knowledge exchange support, (5) training (6) proactive innovation, (7) adaptive technology mindset, (8) critical thinking (9) dealing emotions, (10) empathy human factors. Consequently, we devised 10 recommendations specific approach following: take get know you are working with; proactively ask colleagues; simply try out practice; where help information; sufficient training; embrace curiosity pursue innovation; maintain open adaptable mindset; keep your base; overcome fears, never lose patient focus. CONCLUSIONS Our emphasized importance comprehensive approaches technologies based Swiss Moreover, have implications educators instructors, providing effective methods instruct support enabling them novel proficiently. Therefore, advocate institutions academic educators, regulatory bodies prioritize cultivating technological readiness optimize IT care.

Language: Английский

Applying Large Language Models to Interpret Qualitative Interviews in Healthcare DOI Creative Commons
Marie Wosny, Janna Hastings

Studies in health technology and informatics, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Aug. 22, 2024

To address the persistent challenges in healthcare, it is crucial to incorporate firsthand experiences and perspectives from stakeholders such as patients healthcare professionals. However, current process of collecting, analyzing interpreting qualitative data, interviews, slow labor-intensive. expedite this enhance efficiency, automated approaches aim extract meaningful themes accelerate interpretation, but topic modeling reduce richness raw data. Here, we evaluate whether Large Language Models can be used support semi-automated interpretation interview We compare a novel approach based on LLMs manually identified across two different datasets. This exploratory study finds that have potential incorporating human more widely advancement sustainable systems.

Language: Английский

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Navigating Digital Tools in Hospitals: Practical Recommendations for New Users from a Qualitative Interview Study (Preprint) DOI
Marie Wosny, Livia Maria Strasser, Simone Kraehenmann

et al.

Published: May 1, 2024

BACKGROUND The digitalization of health care organizations is an integral part a clinician’s daily life, making it vital for professionals (HCPs) to understand and effectively use digital tools in hospital settings. However, clinicians often express lack preparedness their work environments. Particularly, new clinical end users, encompassing medical nursing students, seasoned transitioning environments, experienced practitioners encountering technologies, face critically intense learning periods, with adequate time tools, resulting difficulties integrating adopting these into practice<i>.</i> OBJECTIVE This study aims comprehensively collect advice from HCPs Switzerland guide users on how initiate engagement ITs within METHODS We conducted qualitative interviews 52 across Switzerland, representing 24 specialties 14 hospitals. were transcribed verbatim analyzed through inductive thematic analysis. Codes developed iteratively, themes aggregated dimensions refined collaborative discussions. RESULTS Ten emerged the interview data, namely (1) tool understanding, (2) peer-based strategies, (3) experimental approaches, (4) knowledge exchange support, (5) training (6) proactive innovation, (7) adaptive technology mindset, (8) critical thinking (9) dealing emotions, (10) empathy human factors. Consequently, we devised 10 recommendations specific approach following: take get know you are working with; proactively ask colleagues; simply try out practice; where help information; sufficient training; embrace curiosity pursue innovation; maintain open adaptable mindset; keep your base; overcome fears, never lose patient focus. CONCLUSIONS Our emphasized importance comprehensive approaches technologies based Swiss Moreover, have implications educators instructors, providing effective methods instruct support enabling them novel proficiently. Therefore, advocate institutions academic educators, regulatory bodies prioritize cultivating technological readiness optimize IT care.

Language: Английский

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