Assessing performance of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) using Cognitive Task Analysis

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 501-506

  Saitwal, Himali ^a   Feng, Xuan ^b   Walji, Muhammad ^a   Patel, Vimla ^a   Zhang, Jiajie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive Task Analysis; Distributed cognition; Electronic Health Records; GOMS; KLM; UFuRT

Indexed keywords

ARMED FORCES; AVERAGE EXECUTION TIME; COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS; DATA ENTRIES; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; EHR SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEMS; EXECUTION TIME; HUMAN-CENTERED COMPUTING; INTER-RATER RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; LEVEL MODEL; MENTAL EFFORT; SELECTION RULES; SYSTEM RESPONSE TIME; TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION; USER FRIENDLY INTERFACE; USER NEED;

HEALTH; JOB ANALYSIS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; USER INTERFACES;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; WORKLOAD;

MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 77952890815     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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