Category Archives: EHR Workflow

Download Now: Free Open Source EncounterPRO-OS EMR Clinical Groupware for Pediatric and Primary Care

Short Link: http://j.mp/cTjLNx
The EncounterPRO-OS (Open Source) EMR Clinical Groupware Platform (including the award-winning EncounterPRO-OS Pediatric EMR Workflow System) is now a free open-source software project. Find out more at The EncounterPRO Foundation website and download source code and installable executables. If you are interested in enhancing the EncounterPRO-OS “open core” of source code, or creating your [...]

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Herbert Simon’s Well- vs. Ill-Structured Problems, Adaptive Case Management, and Clinical Groupware

Short Link: http://j.mp/9bm9Gp
Herbert Simon, a Nobel Prize-winning economist (and fellow alumnus, I never fail to mention) helped found the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. He “was one of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century” (Wikipedia). I attended his lectures at Carnegie Mellon University, where his ideas about attention, bounded rationality, and satisficing provided [...]

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Intuitive vs. Intuitable EMRs, EHRs, and Clinical Groupware: Do We Need Smarter Users or Smarter User Interfaces?

Short Link: http://j.mp/aU8192

Question: Do We Need Smarter Users or Smarter User Interfaces?
Answer: Smarter User Interfaces.

Pundits often call for more “intuitive” EMR user interfaces. If I may be pedantic, they probably mean “intuitable” EMR user interfaces. Usability experts note the difference.
Peter Bagnall puts it pithily:
Naïve designers often talk of making things intuitive. What they really mean [...]

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What Kind of EMRs, EHRs, and Clinical Groupware Would Captain Sullenberger Design? Intuitive, Usable, Safe

Short Link: http://j.mp/cHqfKc
I was there, March 4th in Atlanta, to hear Captain Sullenberger speak at the HIMSS conference about patient safety. It was more than just a great speech; it was a tour de force. His first speech post-retirement, the question and answer period included “thank you”s, questions, comments, and personal accounts that were, at [...]

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EMRs, EHRs, and Clinical Groupware Need to Solve “The BPM Problem”: Why Not Use BPM to Help Do So?

Short Link: http://j.mp/9NicKE
If this blog has a symbol it’s two cars, one labeled EMR (or EHR, more recently) and one labeled Workflow Management System (or Business Process Management, also more recently), speeding toward collision (see Welcome! (EHR + WfMS = EHR WfMS), the post kicking off this blog). The result, of all those flying parts [...]

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