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Tick-borne diseases are increasing in a global perspective, with Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis as the most frequent. The Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Tick-borne Diseases is preparing the development of a national medical registry for clinical follow-up of patients with tick-borne diseases based on the best practice guidelines and for research purposes. This paper presents the methodological approach of a user-centered design process applied in the initial phase of the registry development. A user workshop identified user needs, requirements and proposed a service workflow for the registry operation. As the next step, a simulation of the proposed service workflow was performed in a clinical laboratory together with end-user groups. The main contribution of this paper lies on the methodological descriptions of the user-centered design process, and how to facilitate the active contribution of end-users in a technical development process within a health care context.
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The authors thank the participants of the study for their disinterested contribution. Special thanks to Åsmund Rodvig Somdal for technical support and assistance in the laboratory simulations. Financial support was provided by the Regional Research Fund of Agder [30] in Norway with Grant number 272978.
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Smaradottir, B.F., Eikeland, R., Reiso, H., Fensli, R.W. (2019). User-Centered Design of a National Medical Registry for Tick-Borne Diseases. In: Lightner, N. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 779. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94373-2_11
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