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The Digitable Approach; smarter collaborate decision making through visualisation

Prof.dr Harry BM van de Wiel & Roelof Kammenga, MGM

University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands

 

 

Introduction 

The Digitable (DT) has a touch screen with a surface of approximately 16 square feet, on which one can organize visual information by touching and swiping. The Digitafel offers a physical platform for co-creation and Design Thinking in a team.

     

Relevance
One of the main characteristics of the 21th century is growing importance of Shared Decision Making (SDM) on all levels of health care, e.g.
 

It’s the quality of these decisions which to a large extend determines the quality of our health care and, on an individual level the quality of our lives.

 

                         

Definition
Decisions making is used here in a broad sense, including:

Problems
The combination of technology push, the explosion of scientific knowledge, value based health care and personal medicinehinders the process of shared decision making in two fundamental ways: 

Tools
In order to reduce the above mentioned problems, a large number of tools were developed in history. One of the most recent ones is the DT, who combines a number of successful types of support:

Applications
Using the DTM can be many business image (visualize) and thereby significantly facilitate and speed up the mental use there of, such as: 

       

                 division of labour and tasks                                  designing workflows

              

                       designing care paths                                   moral deliberation

In short, the DTM establishes a group of professionals capable of joint, surpassing think steps in situations where an intensive appeal is done on their cognitive abilities and on their cooperation.  

Flywheel
The DT is based on a functional cognitive-social-psychological model in which there is a flywheel

                                 

In schedule: less cognitive load > better cooperation >  better decisions > less cognitive load etc.

Experiences in recent months a number of pilots  
Results done on the basis of which Haan (2018) concludes: "with the introduction of the Digitable methodology is a considerable step in the right direction as far as internal tuning within teams in the UMCG. The results of the survey and the interview questions, it appears that there is positively looked at this new instrument ". Also from numerous testimonials show that the DTM a safe, effective and efficient setting to analyze problems, find solutions and practising skills.

Literature: 

·      Haan L:  Het vraagstuk op (de Digi)tafel leggen! B.Sc Thesis, Hanzehogeschool/UMCG Groningen, 2018