Fostering Insight and Collaboration in Long-Term Healthcare through Collection and Visualization of Qualitative Healthcare Data

The Care and Condition Monitor (CCM) is a tablet-based, networked visual analytics tool for collecting, structuring and analyzing informal and qualitative healthcare data. Building off research into application usability and best practices for communicating complex information, CCM illustrates how visual analytics tools coupled with social communication within teams of caregivers enables capturing of longitudinal informal data that would otherwise go unrecorded. This expanded scope of information can support medical decision making by making it possible to analyze informal and qualitative health care data,creating a multi-dimensional holistic picture of a person‟s health care and condition over time