RT Journal Article
T1 Sharing clinical decisions for multimorbidity case management using social network and open-source tools
A1 Martínez-García, Alicia
A1 Moreno-Conde, Alberto
A1 Jódar-Sánchez, Francisco
A1 Leal, Sandra
A1 Parra, Carlos
K1 Redes sociales
AB Introduction:  Our objective is to develop a tool for collaborative work among health professionals for multimorbidity patient care. We describe the architecture to incorporate decision support functionalities in a social network tool to enable the adoption of shared decisions among health professionals from different care levels. Methods: At Virgen del Rocío University Hospital we have designed and developed the Shared Care Platform (SCP) to provide support in the continuity of care for multimorbidity patients. The SCP has two consecutively developed components: social network component, called Clinical Wall, and Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system. The Clinical Wall contains a record where health professionals are able to debate and define shared decisions. Results: In March 2012 we released and deployed the SCP, but only with the social network component. The pilot project lasted 6 months in the hospital and 2 primary care centers. From March to September 2012 we created 16 records in the Clinical Wall, all with a high priority. A total of 10 professionals took part in the exchange of messages: 3 internists and 7 general practitioners generated 33 messages. 12 of the 16 record (75%) were answered by the destination health professionals. The professionals valued positively all the items in the questionnaire. As part of the SCP, opensource tools for CDS will be incorporated to provide recommendations for medication and problem interactions, as well as to calculate indexes or scales from validated questionnaires. Conclusions: Clinical Wall has been developed to allow communication and coordination between the healthcare professionals involved in multimorbidity patient care. Agreed decisions were about coordination for appointment changing, patient conditions, diagnosis tests, and prescription changes and renewal.
PB Elsevier
YR 2013
FD 2013-12
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33810
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33810
LA eng
NO Martínez-García, A., Moreno-Conde, A., Jódar-Sánchez, F., Leal, S., & Parra, C. (2013). Sharing clinical decisions for multimorbidity case management using social network and open-source tools. Journal of biomedical informatics, 46(6), 977–984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2013.06.007
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026