Designing a physician-friendly interface for an electronic medical record system

HEALTHINF 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 324-329

  Craig, Donald ^a   Farrell, Gerard ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data visualization; Electronic health record; Knowledge management; Medical chart; Physician workflow; Usability; User interface design

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; MEDICAL CHARTS; PHYSICIAN WORKFLOW; USABILITY; USER INTERFACE DESIGN;

DATA VISUALIZATION; DESIGN; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL COMPUTING; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; VISUALIZATION;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 77956313924     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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