Using qualitative studies to improve the usability of an EMR

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-60

  Rose, Alan F ^a   Schnipper, Jeffrey L ^b   Park, Elyse R ^c   Poon, Eric G ^a,b   Li, Qi ^a   Middleton, Blackford ^a,b  

^a PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Ethnographic studies; Focus groups; Heuristic evaluation; Prototyping; Sensory perception; Task analysis; Task modeling; Usability engineering; User experience

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESEARCH;

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD (EMR); TASK MODELING; WORKFLOW;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATISFACTION;

ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DATA COLLECTION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 13444251294     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2004.11.006     Document Type: Article

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