Individual Nomad Clinical Assistant: Supporting Nurses at the Point of Care

Accessing patients' data at the point of care has the potential to ease the workflow of nurses and to improve the documentation. We have launched an initiative to develop a mobile assistant focused on managing nurses' daily intervention. The design has required the involvement of many stakeholder and has followed a user centered design process. The evaluation is planned in two stages with an increasing level of ecology. The solution is a client server application displaying a contextualized view on nurses' interventions. It allows to validate and comment each intervention presented as an item in a list. Deploying mobile client applications in healthcare is a challenging task not only from a technical point of view but also regarding organizational factors and human factors.