The Usability People

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The Top 5 EHR Usability Problems and How to Fix Them

This year at HIMSS in Las Vegas there was no shortage of talk about the “lack of usability” in EHRs. In the final HIMSS16 show daily (Thursday March 3, 2016) there were four articles (“When EHRs cause Harm,” “5 UX steps to Healthy Clinical apps,” “Nurse: We face severe IT usability problems,” and “The leading health IT issues? Poor usability and missing safeguards”) that addressed some aspect of EHR usability...Over the past few years we’ve worked with a number of EHR vendors on improving the usability of their solutions. We’ve noticed a number of items that seem to common to many of the systems, and this list contains some of the most common and highest priority usability issues that should be avoided in your EHR designs.

The Usability People

The Usability People is an industry leading User Experience (UX) consulting company. Our founding members have more than 70 years of combined experience providing usability testing and interface design services to businesses of all shapes and sizes. We have helped “mom-and-pop” shops and internet start-ups, to large enterprise organizations, university, and government agencies. We have the experience, knowledge, and passion for UX to help your website or mobile web or app truly delight your users.

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Usability, Accessibility and Telehealth

This month there are two healthcare conferences that we will be attending here in Washington DC. One is the American Telehealth Association’s Fall forum and the other is The Interagency Committee on Disability Research (ICDR)’s Accessibility and Usability in Health Information Technology (HIT)...The ATA Fall Forum focuses on specific telemedicine topics and allows attendees to network and make lasting professional connections in a smaller-scaled environment. Tackle telemedicine, telehealth and mHealth industry issues right at the health care policy epicenter, Washington, DC.