Advancing cognitive engineering methods to support user interface design for electronic health records

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 292-302

  Thyvalikakath, Thankam P ^a,e   Dziabiak, Michael P ^b   Johnson, Raymond ^b   Torres Urquidy, Miguel Humberto ^c   Acharya, Amit ^d   Yabes, Jonathan ^c   Schleyer, Titus K ^e  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^e REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive engineering; Cognitive task analysis; Electronic dental records; Electronic health records; System design; Usability

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; DENTISTRY; DIAGNOSIS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; JOB ANALYSIS; RECORDS MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

COGNITIVE ENGINEERING; COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS; DENTAL RECORDS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; USABILITY;

USER INTERFACES;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE ENGINEERING; COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DENTIST; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ENGINEERING; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; X RAY FILM;

COGNITIVE ENGINEERING; COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC DENTAL RECORDS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; SYSTEM DESIGN; USABILITY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DENTISTS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EVIDENCE-BASED DENTISTRY; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84896711583     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2014.01.007     Document Type: Article

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