Usability testing of mobile ICT for clinical settings: Methodological and practical challenges

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Svanæs, Dag ^a   Alsos, Ole Andreas ^a   Dahl, Yngve ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TELENOR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Electronic patient records; Medical informatics; Mobile ICT; Usability evaluation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL SETTINGS; CLINICAL WORK; ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD; FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION; FULL-SCALE MODELS; HANDS-FREE; HOSPITAL SETTINGS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS; MULTIPLE USER; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; USABILITY EVALUATION; USABILITY TESTING; USABILITY TESTS;

ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTUM THEORY; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TESTING;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ERGONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; PATIENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

FRANCE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 77649191733     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2008.06.014     Document Type: Article

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