COLUMN: Letter from the editors
Taking responsibility as computer science professionals
By Diane Golay
As you may have recognized by now, this edition of XRDS is about changing healthcare with respect to digitalization. Even though digitalization has greatly improved healthcare from many points of views, there are still many aspects that have the potential to improve. This issue will focus on the perspective of healthcare professionals, including their experiences and thoughts about the digitalized work environment.
By Diane Golay
Some worry that digitization leads to replacement of human labor in healthcare, thus leading to a decline in the demand for medical personnel's skills. What lessons can we draw from previous waves of automation?
By Sofia Hernnäs
The introduction of information and communication technology has changed the working style of healthcare managers, often leading to stress. This article discusses the different implications of digitization and proposes some ideas for sustainable technology.
By Magdalena Stadin
As technology and healthcare continue to commingle, data work is being redistributed as powerful professions discard unwanted tasks and other occupations are transformed.
By Claus Bossen
When a self-monitoring tool is developed and implemented in chronic care nurses' work, it changes the way nurses accomplish their work, creating new requirements. This article is based on a design ethnographic study that helps us understand the implications of these changes.
By Kateřina Černá
Swedish primary care staff spend a limited proportion of their work time directly with patients, leaving staff to suffer under heavy administration workloads using poorly designed IT systems. How can their time utilization experience be improved?
By Eva Anskär
The steady advancement of information technology can be observed in many different industries, one example being healthcare. What impacts are expected and how can work life be improved? A hackathon specifically about this topic might give some answers.
By André Kochanke
Using artificial intelligence, and an oft-ignored modality, an Indian startup develops an affordable, accessible, and non-invasive breast cancer screening solution.
By Siva Teja Kakileti, Himanshu Madhu, Thara Subramoni, Geetha Manjunath
As interaction researchers strive to make sense of the forest, they should not lose sight of the trees.
By Christofer Rydenfält, Johanna Persson
Digitalization in healthcare is posed to change the way the older population is treated, the way health workers relate to them, and the participation of computing professionals in the mix.
By Peter Anderberg
By Diogo Fernandes, Carla Silva, Inês Dutra