Workaround identification as an instrument for work analysis and design: a case study on ePrescription.

This paper investigates workarounds occurring while pharmacists use an electronic prescription (ePrescription) application. ePrescription enables physicians to send prescriptions electronically to pharmacies and was recently introduced in Greece as a solution for controlling the ever-increasing medi...

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Publicado en:Work Vol. 41; pp. 1805 - 1811
Autores principales: Vassilakopoulou, Polyxeni, Tsagkas, Vassilis, Marmaras, Nicolas
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. 2012 Supplement
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          Tsagkas, Vassilis
          Marmaras, Nicolas
        affil: Ergonomics Unit, School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Heroon Polytechniou 9, 15780 Zografou, Greece
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          Pharmacists Greece
          Professional Practice
          Electronic Order Entry
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Greece
          Human
          Software
          Pharmacy and Pharmacology Legislation and Jurisprudence
      ab: This paper investigates workarounds occurring while pharmacists use an electronic prescription (ePrescription) application. ePrescription enables physicians to send prescriptions electronically to pharmacies and was recently introduced in Greece as a solution for controlling the ever-increasing medication costs and improving patient safety. The research was carried out in two phases: (i) review of the relevant documentation, (ii) fieldwork (field observations and semi-structured interviews with the pharmacists) in three pharmacies. The workarounds identified fall into five categories and namely: (a) bypass of ePrescription application (i.e. ePrescription application is not used at all), (b) temporal nonconformity in the use of ePrescription application (i.e. usage of the application, but not at the formally specified time), (c) catachresis of ePrescription application (i.e. usage of the application, but not according to the intended way), (d) ePrescription application substitution by another electronic application, and (e) delegation of ePrescription application usage to non-authorized users. The outcome of the research can be used for the improvement of multiple work system elements such as the tools, the procedures, the organisational arrangements and the policies.
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