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Advancing User Experience Research To Facilitate And Enable Patient Centered Research: Current State And Future Directions
Human beings possess well-documented strengths in pattern recognition and higher-order reasoning. This allows individuals to interpret complex data sets in ways that remain difficult to reproduce using computers. [...] Read More »
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On the Need for Human-Centered Design in EHRs
Health information technology (HIT) has become the hottest political issue in Washington. The healthcare industry in the United States is facing a crisis as medical facilities have spent hundreds of billions of dollars implementing electronic health record (EHR) systems, yet patients and the physicians and nurses that care for them are seeing few benefits. Congress has been holding hearings focused on detailing the problems and trying to write legislation that will provide a solution to the crisis. The HIT interoperability bill drafted by Rep. Michael C. Burgess (R-TX) is one example. These are welcome first steps. However, none of the bills currently before Congress, and none of the hearings, are addressing the two most important issues facing medical providers today. These are lack of EHR usability, and the inability to have a patients’ entire medical record at the point of care.
UX Maturity: An Interview with Simon Norris
Simon Norris founded Nomensa in 2001 with the strong belief that the internet should be more inclusive and work more effectively. That belief is one that we at UX Booth can definitely get behind! Just like our readers, Norris believes that digital technology should be both usable and accessible, so much so that he coined the term “humanizing technology” to refer to that need...we’re excited to chat with him and learn more about human psychology, humanized technology, and his experience in the field of UX...
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