Towards Public Health Dashboard Design Guidelines

Lechner, Bettina; Fruhling, Ann L.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07293-7_5

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“…Subsequently studying the dimensions and indicators of principles or guidelines for design and architect of enterprise dashboards extract from findings of articles, they are transparent through comparing with related works. For example, [ 55 ] determines the best approach for designing general health dashboards and suggests an optimized user interface for emergency response system for government public health laboratories. Therefore according to the desired scope, factors such as display all indicators in one screen without the need to move the other pages, using charts and graphs in the right place for visualization and interpretation to minimize the decision-making time and also deploying analytics methods are organizational benefits of dashboards.…”

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An Architectural Framework for Healthcare Dashboards Design

Rouhani

Zamenian²

2021

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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In today’s competitive environment, one of the new tools in the field of information technology is business or organizational dashboards that are a backup in the process of strategic management of organizations. The purpose of the current research is to provide a framework to design the healthcare dashboard through technical architecture with fulfilling the decision-makers’ requirements. In this study, a common qualitative research method, metasynthesis, is applied, including a seven-step set of research questions, conducting systematic literature search and selection of suitable papers, data extraction, analysis and findings of the qualitative composition, quality control, and presentation of findings. During this process, 102 articles were found by saturation of information resources and then 12 articles were selected for extracting data using acceptance and rejection criteria. A critical evaluation method was used to evaluate the quality of selected articles. After investigating the selected articles and scoring them, in terms of quality, one article was very good, 10 articles were good, and one article was moderate. Then, with regard to the principles and guidelines of technical architecture, the required information was extracted from the selected articles and was analyzed with the method of open, axial, and selective coding. Following the steps of metasynthesis methods, the principles extracted with major and minor titles principles and guidelines in the form of multilayered system architecture including presentation layer, application layer, data layer, and technical infrastructure layer were classified. In the obtained framework, 15 indicators as the main principles and 66 subcriteria as the subsidiary principles for the design and technical architecture of enterprise dashboards were identified.

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An Architectural Framework for Healthcare Dashboards Design

Rouhani

Zamenian²

2021

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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“…Additionally, we evaluated dashboard usability based on Lechner and Fruhling's (2014) work on dashboard design. These criteria include whether dashboards conveyed the state of urgency, whether they provided actionable information for users, whether they supported correct data interpretation, whether they aggregated information appropriately, whether they adhered to dashboard design conventions, whether their design aesthetics were minimalist, whether they included GIS interfaces, whether they included relevant content that minimized cognitive processing, and whether they provided temporal trends.…”

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Usability of state public health department websites for communication during a pandemic: A heuristic evaluation

Momenipour

Rojas-Murillo

Murphy

et al. 2021

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

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Study aims were to investigate how usable COVID-19 dedicated state public health websites in the US were, and whether case counts in different geographical regions in the US were related to website usability. 16 state websites representing the 2 highest and the 2 lowest case count states in each region were selected. Five experts used a heuristic evaluation procedure to independently rate all 16 websites on a severity scale of 0–4. Usability criteria published by the US Department of Health and Human Services and criteria on risk communication and data dashboards were used. Analyses involved cross tabulation of usability criteria with case counts, comparison of usability scores using Mood's median tests, test of differences in average usability scores using ANOVA and post-hoc tests, and identification of correlations between case counts and usability scores. Results from the Mood's median test showed that the median usability scores for the states were significantly different from each other at the 5% level of significance (df = 15, chi-square = 38.40; p = 0.001). ANOVA showed statistically significant differences between the mean usability scores for the states at the 5% level of significance (F = 6.33, p < 0.05) . Although not statistically significant, results from a correlation analysis between case count and usability scores showed a negative correlation (r = -0.209, p = 0.437) indicating that the higher the case count, the better the usability score. Overall, the websites fared well on usability, but many websites were used as an information and data repository. These websites must communicate infection risk better. Relevance to industry The study applies to public health agency websites that communicate essential information during a pandemic.

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“…For example, dashboards should regularly update daily cases of students and staffs (separately) per school in the county. In addition, dashboards should provide a full timeline of COVID-19 cases since August 2021, which enables researchers to trace down the COVID-19 cases throughout the school year and conduct temporal trend analyses (3,10,11,15). Moreover, it is important to provide metadata so the audience can understand how accountable the data is (16).…”

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“…There is no consensus on which audience should be a target of COVID-19 dashboards. While some experts argue that dashboards should provide public health information to the general public (3,(6)(7)(8), others point to the need to inform public health workers, researchers, and policy makers (2,4,(9)(10)(11).…”

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Environmental scan of COVID-19 infection dashboards in the Florida public school system

Jang

Jordan²,

Hincapie-Castillo³

2022

Front. Public Health

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Public dashboards have been one of the most effective tools to provide critical information about COVID-19 cases during the pandemic. However, dashboards for COVID-19 that have not received a lot of scrutiny are those from the public school system. We conducted an environmental scan of published dashboards that report and track new COVID-19 infections in the Florida public school system. We found that thirty-four percent of counties do not provide any public dashboard, and there was significant heterogeneity in the data quality and framework of existing systems. There were poor interfaces without visual tools to trace the trend of COVID-19 cases in public schools and significant limitations for data extraction. Given these observations, it is impossible to conduct meaningful policy evaluations and proper surveillance. Additional work and oversight are needed to improve public data reported.

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Towards Public Health Dashboard Design Guidelines

Cited by 20 publications

References 6 publications

An Architectural Framework for Healthcare Dashboards Design

An Architectural Framework for Healthcare Dashboards Design

Usability of state public health department websites for communication during a pandemic: A heuristic evaluation

Environmental scan of COVID-19 infection dashboards in the Florida public school system

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