Process-based and Context-sensitive Information Supply in Medical Care

The needs-based information supply for medical workplaces is a necessary condition in order to ensure a maximum quality of medical care. A survey conducted by the Fraunhofer ISST showed that physicians complain about information overload with simultaneous qualitative information poverty in medical practice. The consideration of the respective process and work context can make an important contribution to an improvement of the physicians ́ information supply. Within this paper first approaches of a differentiated context model and challenges for the future research work are described.