O papel da interação centrada ao usuário para suporte à colaboração em uma unidade de emergência médica

One of the challenges in medical emergency units is the efficient management of information and communication. When compared to other medical departments, the emergency department is one of the environments with greater information load. The increase in the amount of patients, lack of physical infrastructure to allocate patients, fewer physicians, increased complexity of patient treatment, extreme conditions, require of health agents a quick and efficient assimilation steady flow of information from the environment. This paper discusses the need for developing applications that are focused in the needs of health care providers on a domain of medical emergency, in order to support agents in patient care allowing optimization of the time spent in treatment and providing more information when discussing the clinical case and other forms of treatments.