Berglind Smaradottir
Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway
Santiago Martinez
Department of Health and Nursing Science, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway
Elin Thygesen
Department of Health and Nursing Science, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway
Elisabeth Holen-Rabbersvik
Department of Health and Nursing Science, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway
Torunn Vatnøy
Department of Health and Nursing Science, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway
Rune Fensli
Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway
Download articlePublished in: Proceedings from The 15th Scandinavian Conference on Health Informatics 2017 Kristiansand, Norway, August 29–30, 2017
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 145:10, p. 60-65
Published: 2018-01-04
ISBN: 978-91-7685-364-1
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
In Norway, a recent health reform urged municipalities to prepare for telecare alarm services to handle alarms associated to welfare technology and telecare technology in citizens’ homes. That requires a re-organisation of health and social services in many municipalities and several are preparing to establish new telecare alarm services operated in inter-municipal response centres. In this context, the research project “Model for Telecare Alarm Services” aims to study how existing telecare alarm services in Norwegian municipalities are organised and operated, and identify critical factors when designing new models for future services. This paper presents how an innovative simulation of health care services was used in the research project, when key informants from several municipalities, research partners and industry tested different models of telecare alarm services in a usability laboratory. The lessons learned by the research group showed that laboratory simulation was an efficient way of testing different scenarios of new telecare service models, together with key informants from heterogenous end-user groups.
Clinical Simulation, Usability Laboratory, Telecare Alarm Services, Health Informatics.