Development of a DSS and Online Tools to Support Sleep Disorder Consultations using Design Science

Jacqueline Blake; Don Kerr; John Gammack

doi:10.3127/ajis.v20i0.1303

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Development of a DSS and Online Tools to Support Sleep Disorder Consultations using Design Science

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Development of a DSS and Online Tools to Support Sleep Disorder Consultations using Design Science

Jacqueline Blake, Don Kerr and John Gammack

Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Vol.20, pp.1-12

2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v20i0.1303

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Information Systems

Business and Management

decision support system

sleep disorder

medical consultation

diagnosis

usability

UniSC Diversity Area - Disability and Inclusion

Medical decision making takes place in a complex and dynamic environment, involving various individual and organisational stakeholders. In such contexts supportive information systems are required to be designed for practical efficacy, emphasising transparency, usability, and usefulness to their primary users. At the same time, they need to demonstrate improved efficiency and diagnostic accuracy. In addition, they also need to provide effective communication of relevant information. This paper describes the use of design science to develop and evaluate a DSS incorporated into online tools to support sleep physician's diagnosis of sleep disorders. The design science approach offers guidance for developing this solution, that ensure the artefacts fit into their usage context, and that development and evaluation principles that generalise to similar problem domains are identified. How this project fits in the design science guidelines is specified, thus demonstrating how this philosophy and methodology advances theory particularly relevant to other similar medical diagnostic domains. The usability and technical evaluation of the set of tools indicated provide clear practical benefits at patient, physician and organisational levels.

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Title: Development of a DSS and Online Tools to Support Sleep Disorder Consultations using Design Science
Authors: Jacqueline Blake (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Don Kerr (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
John Gammack (Author) - Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Publication details: Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Vol.20, pp.1-12
Publisher: University of Canberra
Date published: 2016
DOI: 10.3127/ajis.v20i0.1303
ISSN: 1449-8618
Copyright note: Copyright © 2016 Blake, Kerr & Gammack. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Australia License, which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and AJIS are credited.
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451010902621
Output Type: Journal article

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