Improving the effectiveness of interprofessional work teams using EHR-based Data in the treatment of chronic diseases: An action research study

The purpose of this paper is to focus on changing the consciousness of health care workers towards cooperation in the hospital hierarchy, which is a problem for achieving effective team medical care in medical institutions. Team medical care is important in order to enhance the effectiveness of medical services, and the Japanese government has been trying to incorporate team medical care into the medical system. Through the examination of a hospital´s case, we tried to clarify that, with the assistance of visualization by a medical information tool, co-medical staff have the potential to become players who can express their professional opinion to doctors on their own initiative.