Table 2: Trends in teamwork communication in healthcare.

Reference and Title	Summary	Future Work and Gaps
Improving Clinical Communication: A View from Psychology [36].	The current communications (synchronous communication) have negative effects on task load.	Using information technology to support teamwork communication among medical staff.
Communication Systems in Healthcare [33].	Less attention is paid to communication systems and many health services are yet to fully embrace the clinical adoption of services like voice-mail or electronic mail.	The attention paid to communication support is still quite imbalanced. More attention needs to be paid to communication enhancements in healthcare.
Intra-organizational Communication in Healthcare [29].	Inefficiency and error in healthcare often result from synchronous interruptive communication	The current communication channels have negative effects on healthcare quality, and this situation affords fresh insights into IT applications for improving interpersonal communication.
An interdisciplinary team communication framework and its application to healthcare'e-teams' systems design [17].	Creating a framework for interdisciplinary team communication based on processes, structures, and outcomes.	Using IT to support teamwork communication in healthcare
Describing the Clinical Communication Space a Model of Common Ground: ‘you don’t know what you don’t know’ [37]	Understanding how to deliver collaborative care through custom designed communication systems.	This is just a an introductory work into the design of clinical communication systems.
The Effect of Health Information Technology on Health Care Provider Communication: A Mixed-Method Protocol [38]	A theoretical model that is based on communication and sociology theories covers how communication is affected by health information and communication technologies.	Identification of those health information and communication technologies that support mutual understanding between physicians and nurses is an aim of this study.