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Walji: One of the biggest challenges preventing widespread adoption of electronic health records
are that they are not really designed to fit the work of health care providers
many clinicians have to change the way they work to fit the design of EHR
In our project we are developing the methods and tools
that facilitate work centered design
Our work is based on decades of research in human factors and human-computer interaction
Usability is one of our key focus areas.
Poor EHR usability can have devastating consequences.
such as causing medication to be ordered for the wrong person
In our lab, we conduct assessments of commercial EHRs
and provide detail feedback to vendors
on usability challenges we discover
In our simulation facilities we can model health care environments
and test how EHR's can handle realistic clinical scenarios
We are also developing software tools that can help
comprehensive usability assessments and
to capture, redesign, and improve work flow
We expect that our work can help in the development of EHR's
That can reach enormous potential, to be usable, useful,
and optimized to fit the work flow of health care providers and their patients