Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
IT User Experience and Information Flow
Jim Heys, Yadira Ornelas, Jihyun Sun
Design Workshop: Healthcare Research, Judith Gregory, PhD, Advisor
Institute of Design, IIT
What is cardiac catheterization (Cardiac Cath)?
 A procedure that helps a doctor to see how the heart is working
Cardiologists insert
a catheter into an artery
in the arm or leg
which leads to the heart.
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4491
Cath Lab Team
 Attending
Cardiologist
 Cardiology
Fellow
 Nurse(s)
 Technician
Concluding
Performing
Preparing
Before
During
After
Operating Table
Technician
Storage
Nurse
Station
Nurse(s)
Cardiologist
Fellow
Operating Room
Attending
Cardiologist
Patient
Scrubs
Control Room
Information Flow in Cath Data Circulation
Data
Billing and
Cost Capture
Inventory
images
Cath Procedure
Vital
Signs and
Chronological
Log Data
Cath Lab IT
Reporting
Tool
Hospital
Information
System
documents
Imaging
System for
Angiograms
& others
Cath Lab Info. Flow
CVIS
(CardioVascular
Information
System)
Finance
and
Accounting
Medical
Record &
Coding
ACC
Registry
QA &
Benchmark
Clinical
Research
Case Study
Methodology
Field Observation (February-December, 2007)
Video and photographic documentation
In situ interviews
Instances
Communication
Double Check
Portable Data
Knock, Knock!
Blacking out
Space
Three is a crowd.
Uneasy Access
Information
Technology
Printed
Documents
Hand-written
Notebook
Information Flow
Generation
Management
Storage
Distribution
Implications
 Value for Cath team (Providers)
 Value for patients
Acknowledgements

Rush Hospital, Chicago, IL
University of Chicago Hospital, Chicago, IL

GE Healthcare

Thank you!