Healthcare Toolkit: Unified User-Interface Rahat Azhar, Liwen Tian, Gerlinde Utsch 6th Dec 2013 IE 545 Human Factors Engineering, Dr. Ken Funk
1. Background & Overview Electronic medical record (EMR) complex and confusing Need: Healthcare Toolkit which integrates all the sub- processes of a medical encounter in a user-friendly interface In accordance with human factor principles 2 IDEF0 Modelling Detailed Task Analysis Interface Design Evaluation Requirements
2. IDEF0 model & Detailed Task Analysis 3 Patient under Medical Treatment
A0 diagram Activities: ◦ Collect Patient‘s Information (A1) ◦ Examine Physical Condition (A2) ◦ Diagnose the Patient‘s Condition (A3) ◦ Determine the Patient‘s Treatment (A4) ◦ Plan Follow-up (A5) Detailed Task Analysis more requirements 4
3. Requirements & Design 5
4. Evaluation Procedure: ◦ Show and explain how the application works ◦ Time to try it out ◦ Questionnaire Results: ◦ Positive: easy to use, alerts, colors ◦ Negative: simplified ◦ Recommendations: show more information under the patient‘s name 6
5. Conclusion & Recommendations Overall positive feedback Promising start Needs to be developed ◦ Implementation of functions ◦ Correct terminology ◦ Adjustments 7
Thank You! Questions? 8