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

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - Tập 22 Số 6 - Trang 1179-1182 - 2015
Raj M. Ratwani1,2, Rollin J. Fairbanks1,3,2, A. Zachary Hettinger1,2, Natalie C. Benda3,2
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
2National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, MedStar Health, Washington, DC, USA
3Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA

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Abstract The usability of electronic health records (EHRs) continues to be a point of dissatisfaction for providers, despite certification requirements from the Office of the National Coordinator that require EHR vendors to employ a user-centered design (UCD) process. To better understand factors that contribute to poor usability, a research team visited 11 different EHR vendors in order to analyze their UCD processes and discover the specific challenges that vendors faced as they sought to integrate UCD with their EHR development. Our analysis demonstrates a diverse range of vendors’ UCD practices that fall into 3 categories: well-developed UCD, basic UCD, and misconceptions of UCD. Specific challenges to practicing UCD include conducting contextually rich studies of clinical workflow, recruiting participants for usability studies, and having support from leadership within the vendor organization. The results of the study provide novel insights for how to improve usability practices of EHR vendors.

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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Tập 22 Số 6

1179-1182

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