JMIR Human Factors

Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are known to improve adherence to clinical practice guidelines and patient outcomes by providing clinicians with timely, accurate, and appropriate knowledge.

Physiotherapists lack training opportunities for repeated practice of pelvic examinations for the identification of pelvic floor disorders (PFDs), leading to low confidence in the clinical setting. Although simulators exist and are a valuable supplement to the medical curriculum, none demonstrate pelvic floor muscle (PFM) function or dysfunction. To design effective simulators, an assessment of end-user requirements is essential.

Treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) is a severe form of schizophrenia associated with low adherence to treatment and poor outcomes. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions may be effective in preventing relapses, increasing treatment adherence, and managing some of the symptoms of schizophrenia. Mobile therapeutic attention for treatment-resistant schizophrenia (m-RESIST) is an innovative mobile health (mHealth) developed specifically for TRS.

Surgical lighting systems (SLSs) provide optimal lighting conditions for operating room personnel. Current systems are mainly adjusted by hand; surgeons either accommodate the light themselves or communicate their requirements to an assistant to ensure optimal surgical conditions. This poses challenges to maintaining sterility, proper accessibility, and illumination and can lead to potential collision problems. Furthermore, the personnel operating the light may not have deep medical knowledge or equipment expertise.

Burden caused by use of electronic health record (EHR) systems continues to be an important issue for healthcare organizations, especially given human resource shortages in healthcare systems globally. As physicians report spending two hours documenting for every hour of patient care, there has been strong interest from many organizations to understand and address the root causes of physician burnout due to EHR burden.

Digital solutions are gaining increasing importance and present a challenge regarding the introduction and acceptance into professional medical environments. Significant advances have been made regarding availability, safety, and ease of use of data generated by a multitude of devices and wearables. However, data security and data protection are delaying factors. The underlying analysis focuses on the use, acceptance of digital solutions and their respective differences between healthcare professionals and patients.

Perinatal nurses are increasingly encountering patients who have engaged in perinatal substance use (PSU). Despite growing evidence demonstrating the need to reduce nurses’ stigmatizing attitudes toward PSU, limited interventions are available to target these attitudes and support behavior change, especially those reflecting the overwhelming evidence that education alone is insufficient to change practice behavior. Arts-based interventions are associated with increasing nursing empathy, changing patient attitudes, improving reflective practice, and decreasing stigma. We adapted ArtSpective for PSU—a previously evaluated, in-person, arts-based intervention to reduce stigma toward PSU among perinatal nurses—into an interactive, digital, and responsive platform that facilitates intervention delivery asynchronously.

The ongoing opioid epidemic in the U.S. warrants consideration of how and whether we can use digital tools for activities such as screening for substance use disorder (SUD). Artificially Intelligent (AI) Chatbots are becoming more common in healthcare to facilitate patient education and outreach, but we lack agreed upon standards for security and system design and how we can use these systems while adhering to regulations for patient confidentiality.

Using wearable activity trackers shows promise in measuring physical activity in patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). However, little is known regarding the feasibility of long-term use.

A significant cause of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is access to and delivery of maternal healthcare services. Several multi-sectoral strategies have been deployed to address the challenges with little success; thereby necessitating the use of Human-Centred Design (HCD) to enhance healthcare delivery, particularly in PPH management.

Knowledge sharing in medical imaging departments is driven by the need to improve health care services, develop health care professionals’ skills, and reduce repetitive mistakes. It is considered an important step in the implementation of knowledge management solutions. By following a maturity model of knowledge sharing, knowledge-sharing practices can be improved.

Globally, mental health (MH) problems increasingly affect young people, contributing significantly to disability and disease. In low- and middle-income countries, such as Colombia, barriers to accessing care exacerbate the treatment gap. In addition, the lack of widespread digital interventions further deepens the digital health divide between the Global North and Global South, limiting equitable access to innovative MH solutions.