Description
In Finland, healthcare regions offer a Home Hospital service (Kotisairaala) that delivers hospital-level care directly in patients’ homes. It is designed for those requiring acute, subacute, or palliative care who can safely remain outside a traditional hospital setting. The multidisciplinary team – including doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals – provides treatments such as intravenous therapies, wound care, medication management, vital signs monitoring, and symptom control. The service aims to promote recovery in a familiar environment, minimise hospital stays, and improve quality of life while allowing patients to stay close to their families.
Coordinating the Home Hospital’s daily processes and logistics is not an easy task. Currently, this coordination relies on very traditional tools, which is why a new resource planning system is being developed. In this project, we are keen to explore the usability and visualisation of the resource planning environment from the coordinator’s perspective. Coordinators are responsible for leading the service, planning who goes where, and deciding how to react to unexpected situations.
How might we manage cognitive load and utilise automation and smart visualisation to support the coordinators? This project aims to build demos and prototypes exploring different options for user interfaces and interactions.