Category Archives: EHR Workflow

Will the Apple iPad Force Healthcare to Finally Abandon Outmoded User Interface Designs?

Short Link: http://j.mp/cbQP2c
I can’t leave the iPad alone, literally or figuratively (how many EMR users can say *that* about their EMR?). Last week I explored the relationship between EMR/EHR/clinical groupware contextual usability and process awareness. This week I consider the following apparent contradiction:
Most reviewers agree that the iPad is optimized for content consumption, not content [...]

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Contextual Usability, My Apple iPad, and Process-Aware Clinical Groupware for Pediatric Practice

Short Link: http://j.mp/dbhBvw
Apple started selling iPads today. I bought one. I published this post from it.
There’s an important relationship between

iPad-like form factors, task-at-a-time workflow, and contextual usability in mobile settings on one hand and
process-aware clinical groupware for pediatric practice (AKA pediatric EMR workflow systems) on the other hand.

I’ll use as a springboard Todd Biske’s Context [...]

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Clinical Groupware as Clinical Teamware for Pediatric and Primary Care Practice

Short Link: http://j.mp/bUmHkC
A great pediatrician or primary care physician (family medicine, obstetrics & gynecology, or general internal medicine) is caring, attentive, available and knowledgeable; a great pediatric or primary care office is full of people with these qualities; and a great pediatric or primary care EMR/EHR (electronic medical/health record) allows the doctor and staff to [...]

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Copyright Received for EHR Workflow Management Systems Criteria

Short Link: http://j.mp/cmsisv
I received a cool looking document last week, the copyright certificate of registration for the EHR Workflow Management Systems survey of features and functions.

A fan of open source and open minds, I license everything on this blog (and we everything on our product website) under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

I essentially registered [...]

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#HIMSS10 Best Ever: Due in Large Part to Social Media

Short Link: http://j.mp/9GEhUr
“#HIMSS10” was the hashtag used in tweets about this year’s HIMSS conference in Atlanta, March 1-4. Attendees searched Twitter for #HIMSS10 to follow a gigantic conversation. #HIMSS10, or more precisely the convergence it symbolizes to me, transformed my HIMSS conference experience.
I’ve been coming to HIMSS conferences for ten years. The added social media [...]

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