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Health Innovation May 3, 2018

User-Centered Design (aka Design Thinking) for Healthcare IT Usability Improvement

By Bennett Lauber – The usability (or lack thereof) of Healthcare IT has been in the news a lot again. This time a research report published in JAMA researchers analyzed voluntary error reports associated with EHR systems and found that problems with EHR usability may have directly resulted in patient harm.

EHR Adoption, Health Innovation, Patient Engagement July 14, 2015

What is Usability and User-centered Design?

By Bennett Lauber – Look, and feel the chair that you are sitting in right now. If you are sitting in a modern office chair it probably has adjustable arms, the height of the chair can be adjusted to match your height. Most likely the bottom of the chair has special contours to better match the shape of your butt. This is user-centered-design.