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  • Health Informatics
  • Data Visualization
  • Healthcare Management

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  • Health care dashboards offer potential for improved understanding, decision-making, and communication.
  • However, a lack of standardized guidelines impedes their effective design, implementation, and evaluation.
  • This review synthesizes international evidence on health care dashboard design practices for the Irish context.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify existing guidelines and common practices for health care dashboard design.
  • To inform future development and implementation within the Irish health care system.

Main Methods:

  • A scoping review was conducted using an evidence summary approach.
  • Searches were performed in PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and IEEE Xplore (2014-2024).
  • Practices were extracted and analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis, grouped into approach, content, behavior, and adoption pillars.

Main Results:

  • Only 18 of 1644 studies met inclusion criteria; most focused on hospitals, with limited community or public dashboards.
  • Few studies (22.2%) described structured guidelines; most implementations (77.8%) were ad hoc.
  • Common practices included user involvement, actionable metrics, data quality, usability, and workflow integration, with observed divergences in focus and format.

Conclusions:

  • Health care dashboard design is fragmented with limited structured guidance.
  • The identified four pillars (approach, content, behavior, adoption) synthesize best practices for evidence-informed, user-centered design.
  • These findings will support consensus building and co-design in Ireland and can be applied broadly to primary, community, and public health settings.