Category Archives: EHR Workflow

Twitter 1 Blog 0: Haven’t Posted For a While, But You Can Find Me on Twitter

Short Link: http://j.mp/icCBOj
I haven’t posted here for a while. I’ve got a lots of ideas for future posts, plus drafts I need to get around to polishing and publishing. In the mean time, Twitter sure is fun and I’ve met some great folks there with similar interests.
Ironic that I started tweeting to get attract traffic to [...]

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MedInfo 2010, Cape Town, South Africa: Some Travel Photos

Last week I flew (and flew and flew) to Cape Town, South Africa, to attend the 13th International Congress on Medical Informatics and present “Process-Aware EHR BPM Systems” (co-authored with Mark Copenhaver). Held every three years, I’ve been to five of six Medinfo conferences held since 1995 in Vancouver, Canada. Medinfo is a crystal ball [...]

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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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