Electronic health record usability: Analysis of the user-centered design processes of eleven electronic health record vendors

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1179-1182

  Ratwani, Raj M ^a,b   Fairbanks, Rollin J ^a,b,c   Zachary Hettinger, A ^a,b   Benda, Natalie C ^a,c  

^a MedStar Health   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic health records; Health information technology; Human factors; Usability

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; WORKFLOW; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; BIOENGINEERING; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; INTERVIEW; STANDARDS;

ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84954233928     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocv050     Document Type: Article

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