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Amy Franklin¹, Swaroop Gantela¹, Salsawit Shifarraw²

¹The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7000 Fannin Suite 600, Houston, TX 77030, United States.

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Summary

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Information visualizations can help emergency department (ED) clinicians make better real-time decisions. This supports improved patient flow and timely care by offering a global perspective of the ED status.

Keywords:

Cognitive informatics Dashboards Data visualization Decision making Emergency medicine Throughput

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Area of Science:

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Health Informatics
Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

Effective emergency department (ED) care necessitates managing both individual patients and overall departmental flow.
Previous workflow improvements focused on strategic changes, often overlooking real-time clinician decisions.
Clinicians' in-the-moment decisions are frequently based on local, rather than global, perspectives.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore the potential of real-time information visualizations to enhance clinical decision-making in the ED.
To improve emergency department patient flow and throughput times.
To address the limitations of global strategic changes by supporting real-time, opportunistic workflow decisions.

Main Methods:

Discussion of the design and implementation challenges of ED information visualizations.
Development of a prototype "Throughput Dashboard" for real-time ED status representation.
Leveraging previous research on clinician workflow decision-making perspectives.

Main Results:

Information visualizations can provide a real-time, global view of the ED and patient status.
Such visualizations have the potential to support in-the-moment clinical decision-making.
The prototype Throughput Dashboard demonstrates a potential tool for improving ED flow.

Conclusions:

Real-time information visualizations are crucial for supporting effective clinical decision-making in the ED.
Visualizing the entire ED status can shift clinicians from local to global perspectives.
Further development and implementation of tools like the Throughput Dashboard are needed to optimize ED operations.