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Showing posts with label healthcare IT usability. Show all posts

Showing posts with label healthcare IT usability. Show all posts

Friday, March 27, 2015

Opinion, CIO Magazine: "The medical profession needs to get over its fear of information technology"- their complaints bogus

There comes a time when the pundits defending the status quo in the healthcare information technology sector and health IT utopianism simply...

Monday, November 04, 2013

Australian Medical Association on EHR rollout: 'Hard to use, increases workload, hard to find data, we just don't seem to have got the outcome we were looking for.'

Some familiar themes from the Australian Medical Association on their attempt at a National Programme for Health IT: Electronic health re...

Friday, May 17, 2013

American Medical Association finally on board with EHR views expressed on this blog since 2004

- Posted on the Healthcare Renewal Blog May 17, 2013 - It seems to have taken awhile, but organized medicine seems to finally be recogniz...

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Far more concern about Linux user experience than the EHR user experience, and your life does not depend on the former

I find this ironic and striking: During my informatics postdoc I used a SparcStation-2 running UNIX and an old X Windows user interface. ...

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

AMIA: Enhancing patient safety and quality of care by improving the usability of EHR systems, but ... no sympathy for victims of bad health IT?

A panel of experts from the American Medical Informatics Association have written a paper " Enhancing patient safety and quality of car...

Thursday, February 02, 2012

Siemens Healthcare on solving EHR usability problems: you can just call up your pal at the next hospital

In my Aug. 2009 post " Why Siemens Healthcare Fails ", I wrote: I note that I used to admire German engineering rigor, but after s...

Thursday, March 03, 2011

HIMSS and Healthcare IT: We Don't Need A "Usability Maturity Model." We Need - USABILITY - and Less of Cold-Blooded Calculus

Health IT industry consortium HIMSS has followed up its Master of the Obvious, 50-years-too-late paper " Defining and Testing EMR Usabi...

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The National Program for Healthcare IT in the U.S., and the Elephant in the Living Room

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has begun to address deficient clinical IT usability. A PDF with presentation...

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Meaningful Use Final Rule: Have the Administration and ONC Put the Cart Before the Horse on Health IT?

Meaningful use before meaningful usability ? The Dept. of HHS today has released the final version of "Meaningful Use" rules on H...

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