Improving operational support in hospital wards through vocal interfaces and process-awareness

Providing operational support to clinicians during their daily activities in hospital wards is a challenge for information technologies. In particular, solutions should provide very usable user interfaces, possibly deployed on mobile devices, and should be able to enact and monitor the execution of clinical guidelines. In this paper, we present the preliminary outcomes of the TESTMED project, a small project in which vocal and touch interfaces are being experimented as a viable solution for clinicians' interaction with the system, and a process-aware approach has been undertaken for the (semi-)automation of clinical guidelines.

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