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Enhancing Health-Care Services with Mixed Reality Systems

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The Engineering of Mixed Reality Systems

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This work presents a development approach for mixed reality systems in health care. Although health-care service costs account for 5–15% of GDP in developed countries the sector has been remarkably resistant to the introduction of technology-supported optimizations. Digitalization of data storing and processing in the form of electronic patient records (EPR) and hospital information systems (HIS) is a first necessary step. Contrary to typical business functions (e.g., accounting or CRM) a health-care service is characterized by a knowledge intensive decision process and usage of specialized devices ranging from stethoscopes to complex surgical systems. Mixed reality systems can help fill the gap between highly patient-specific health-care services that need a variety of technical resources on the one side and the streamlined process flow that typical process supporting information systems expect on the other side. To achieve this task, we present a development approach that includes an evaluation of existing tasks and processes within the health-care service and the information systems that currently support the service, as well as identification of decision paths and actions that can benefit from mixed reality systems. The result is a mixed reality system that allows a clinician to monitor the elements of the physical world and to blend them with virtual information provided by the systems. He or she can also plan and schedule treatments and operations in the digital world depending on status information from this mixed reality.

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Acknowledgments

This work was developed in cooperation with several clinics where the field tests have been conducted. There were valuable evaluation contributions from a range of experienced clinicians. Finally, we would like to thank the anonymous reviewers and the editors of this book for their constructive criticism and valuable improvement suggestions.

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Stantchev, V. (2010). Enhancing Health-Care Services with Mixed Reality Systems. In: Dubois, E., Gray , P., Nigay, L. (eds) The Engineering of Mixed Reality Systems. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-733-2_17

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