Abstract
As holistic health care gains momentum within medical systems, interdisciplinary collaboration has become crucial to improving the quality of patient care. In practice, however, cooperation among professionals is often hindered by fragmented information, differences in professional language and logic, system discontinuities, and the lack of structured processes. This study investigates the needs and challenges of information integration and task tracking in interdisciplinary teams through qualitative interviews and a card-sorting method with seven types of healthcare professionals— physician, nurse, medical social worker, clinical psychologist, dietitian, physical therapist, and dentist. The findings highlight issues such as insufficient information integration, fragmented goal-setting and feedback, and the lack of digital task tracking. Based on these insights, we propose a preliminary digital system framework that includes a case care management module and an interdisciplinary collaboration module. The results provide design references for future digital holistic care systems and aim to enhance teamwork efficiency and care quality in healthcare settings.
Keywords
Holistic care; Interprofessional collaboration; Digital health; Co-design
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.842
Citation
Huang, T.,and Wu, K.(2025) Designing for Interprofessional Collaboration: Integrating Data and Communication in Health Care Teams, in Chang, C.-Y., and Hsu, Y. (eds.), IASDR 2025: Design Next, 02-05 December, Taiwan. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2025.842
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Conference Track
Track 9 - Healthcare Design
Designing for Interprofessional Collaboration: Integrating Data and Communication in Health Care Teams
As holistic health care gains momentum within medical systems, interdisciplinary collaboration has become crucial to improving the quality of patient care. In practice, however, cooperation among professionals is often hindered by fragmented information, differences in professional language and logic, system discontinuities, and the lack of structured processes. This study investigates the needs and challenges of information integration and task tracking in interdisciplinary teams through qualitative interviews and a card-sorting method with seven types of healthcare professionals— physician, nurse, medical social worker, clinical psychologist, dietitian, physical therapist, and dentist. The findings highlight issues such as insufficient information integration, fragmented goal-setting and feedback, and the lack of digital task tracking. Based on these insights, we propose a preliminary digital system framework that includes a case care management module and an interdisciplinary collaboration module. The results provide design references for future digital holistic care systems and aim to enhance teamwork efficiency and care quality in healthcare settings.