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Arild Faxvaag¹, Lillian Røstad, Inger A Tøndel

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Visualizing operating room (OR) team information on wall boards can improve coordination. De-identification techniques can mitigate information security risks while maintaining data utility.

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Healthcare Management
Information Security
Team Coordination

Background:

Operating room (OR) departments are high-cost hospital resources requiring efficient utilization.
Planning OR activities is challenging due to unpredictable work, multidisciplinary teams, and external commitments.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore self-coordination among OR teams through information visualization.
To develop a realistic scenario for analyzing coordination needs in OR settings.
To identify and address information security challenges of displaying real-time OR information.

Main Methods:

Developed a realistic scenario to characterize clinical situations requiring OR team coordination.
Analyzed information security challenges associated with displaying team and patient whereabouts on wall-mounted boards.
Investigated de-identification techniques as a mitigation strategy for information security threats.

Main Results:

Information visualization on wall boards can facilitate OR team self-coordination.
Displaying real-time operational data presents significant information security and privacy concerns.
De-identification effectively balances information access with patient and personnel privacy protection.

Conclusions:

Visualizing OR information can enhance team coordination and resource utilization.
Implementing robust information security measures, such as de-identification, is crucial.
Balancing information sharing for coordination with privacy protection is achievable through technical solutions.