Role of dashboards in improving decision making in healthcare: Review of the literature

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive overview of how dashboards are contributing in aiding and improving the quality of decision making in healthcare. A literature search was performed for the related papers on PubMed, Web-science, IEEE Xplore Digital Library and ACM Digital Library. Both citation and hand searches were conducted to find relevant papers. Sixty-two full text papers were retrieved of which eight papers were included in the review. Significant heterogeneity was found in the process, outcomes analysis methods and techniques. There was considerable evidence that the use of data visualization dashboards in healthcare improves the quality of decision making in healthcare.