COLUMN: Letter from the editors
Taking responsibility as computer science professionals
By Diane Golay
Magazine: Spring 2020 | Volume 26, No. 3
Digitalization in healthcare is for the better from many perspectives—for patients, as well as for health organizations, healthcare professionals, and society in general. Digitalized healthcare provides safer treatments and care, which in the end contributes to more lives saved and a higher proportion of people who are cured of their disease(s). This implies a higher proportion of working-age people (and those who will be working age) will be healthy enough to work, and thus financially contribute to society. Healthcare professionals are also assisted by digitalization, which can facilitate their work duties and give them support in everyday work.
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.
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SECTION: Features
Will digitization harm or help workers in healthcare?
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
Technostress in digital healthcare environments
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
Data work and digitization
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
Designing self-monitoring data for chronic care
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
Time utilization and psychosocial work environments in primary care
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
Digitization in the healthcare industry
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
Thermalytix
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
The usability and digitalization of healthcare
As interaction researchers strive to make sense of the forest, they should not lose sight of the trees.
By Christofer Rydenfält, Johanna Persson
Gerontechnology, digitalization, and the silver economy
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
Erratum: Using Grover's search quantum algorithm to solve Boolean satisfiability problems, part 2
By Diogo Fernandes, Carla Silva, Inês Dutra