Older adults' preferences in the utilization of digital health and social services: a qualitative analysis of responses to open-ended questions.

Background: While digital health and social services offer promising solutions, they often overlook the perspectives and needs of older adults. This study aims to comprehensively investigate the preferences of older adults regarding the use and development of digital health and social services.

Methods: The survey spanned from 19 March to 31 March 2023.

Diagnostic Performance, Triage Safety, and Usability of a Clinical Decision Support System Within a University Hospital Emergency Department: Algorithm Performance and Usability Study.

Background: Computerized clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) are increasingly adopted in health care to optimize resources and streamline patient flow. However, they often lack scientific validation against standard medical care.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the performance, safety, and usability of a CDSS in a university hospital emergency department setting in Kuopio, Finland.

Social welfare professionals willing to participate in client information system development - Results from a large cross-sectional survey.

Human-centered design methods should be implemented throughout the client information system (CIS) development process to understand social welfare professionals' needs, tasks, and contexts of use. The aim of this study was to examine Finnish social welfare professionals' experiences of participating in CIS development.A national cross-sectional web-based survey on the CIS experiences of social welfare professionals (1145 respondents) was conducted in Finland in spring 2019.

Automatic Mobile Health Arrhythmia Monitoring for the Detection of Atrial Fibrillation: Prospective Feasibility, Accuracy, and User Experience Study.

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common tachyarrhythmia and associated with a risk of stroke. The detection and diagnosis of AF represent a major clinical challenge due to AF's asymptomatic and intermittent nature. Novel consumer-grade mobile health (mHealth) products with automatic arrhythmia detection could be an option for long-term electrocardiogram (ECG)-based rhythm monitoring and AF detection.

End-user participation in health information systems (HIS) development: Physicians' and nurses' experiences.

Background: End-user participation is essential to the development of health information systems (HIS) that are useful for clinicians and support their routine work. However, few studies have investigated end users' experiences with HIS development and their preferred ways of participation in it.

Objectives: This study examined the participation experiences of physicians and nurses with HIS development.

User participation in healthcare IT development: a developers' viewpoint in Finland.

Background And Purpose: Recent research showed that physicians in Finland were highly critical of their information technology (IT) systems. They were also critical of the methods of collaboration with the developers of the health IT systems (HITS) in use at the time of the questionnaire. This study turned the set-up around and asked systems developers the same questions about collaboration.

How to co-develop services, work, and information systems in healthcare: the daisy approach.

Information systems in healthcare need to be designed and developed in a collaborative way. However, existing collaborative methodologies for the parallel development of healthcare work and information systems are vague and fragmented. Furthermore, they neither address people-centred healthcare nor limited-resource contexts.

Physicians' experiences of participation in healthcare IT development in Finland: willing but not able.

Objective: To learn (1) about the kind of experiences that physicians have with participation in healthcare IT development; (2) whether physicians are interested in participating in IT development activities, and if so, how; and (3) the visions that physicians have regarding future IT systems.

Methods: A web-based questionnaire which was answered by about one-third of the working-age physicians in Finland, which is exceptionally broad and sizeable a sample. This research deals with only a small part of the entire questionnaire.

Participatory interaction design in user requirements specification in healthcare.

Healthcare information systems are accused of poor usability even in the popular media in Finland. Doctors especially have been very critical and actively expressed their opinions in public. User involvement and user-centered design methods are seen as the key solution to usability problems.