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I predict:
Future extensible clinical groupware will coordinate delivery of EHR functionality to teams of users by combining modular components with executable process models whose usability (effectiveness, efficiency, and user satisfaction) will be systematically improved using business process management techniques.
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Charles Webster, MD, MSIE, MSIS

Bio: About those initials (my mother used to say I was killing myself by degrees): BS, Accountancy, University of Illinois; MD, University of Chicago; MSIE, Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois; MSIS, Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh. (Those are kickbikes.)
Healthcare BPM
EMR Usability
- User-Centered EHR Design Considered Harmful (Try Process-Centered Instead)
- Efficient and Moral Market-driven EMR and EHR Usability Innovation
- Putting the "U" in EHR Usability℠: The Federal Health IT Five Year Strategic Plan
- Usability Expert Jakob Nielsen Would Like EMRs / EHRs with Big Targets, Less Functionality and Better Workflow Management
- NIST EMR / EHR Usability Workshop: A Highly Annotated Tweetstream
Clinical Intelligence
EHR Workflow
- My Virtual Graduate Degree in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
- "Workflow's Unique Contribution to Healthcare": Let's Make These Quotes from 1996 Come True Before 2016
- Hold Onto Your Hats: BPM in Healthcare is Taking Off!
- Paper & Video: EHR Business Process Management: From Process Mining to Process Improvement to Process Usability
- Twitter 1 Blog 0: Haven't Posted For a While, But You Can Find Me on Twitter
- MedInfo 2010, Cape Town, South Africa: Some Travel Photos
- Download Now: Free Open Source EncounterPRO-OS EMR Clinical Groupware for Pediatric and Primary Care
- Herbert Simon's Well- vs. Ill-Structured Problems, Adaptive Case Management, and Clinical Groupware
- Intuitive vs. Intuitable EMRs, EHRs, and Clinical Groupware: Do We Need Smarter Users or Smarter User Interfaces?
- What Kind of EMRs, EHRs, and Clinical Groupware Would Captain Sullenberger Design? Intuitive, Usable, Safe
- EMRs and EHRs Need to Solve "The BPM Problem": Why Not Use BPM to Help Do So?
- Meet the Bloggers Revisited: Can You Identify Who Said What?
- Adaptive Case Management, Clinical Groupware, and Routine vs. Non-Routine Workflow in Medical Practice
- Tweeting Live from Process.gov: The BPM in Government Conference, April 14-15, 2010, Reston, VA: Looking for the Healthcare Angle
- Will the Apple iPad Force Healthcare to Finally Abandon Outmoded User Interface Designs?
- Contextual Usability, My Apple iPad, and Process-Aware Clinical Groupware for Pediatric Practice
- Clinical Groupware as Clinical Teamware for Pediatric and Primary Care Practice
- Copyright Received for EHR Workflow Management Systems Criteria
- #HIMSS10 Best Ever: Due in Large Part to Social Media
- Clinical Groupware: A Definition (Version 2.0?)
- Usable Clinical Groupware Requires Modular Components and Business Process Management
- Tweeting Live from HIMSS, March 1-4, Atlanta: Pediatric & Primary Care, EMR/EHRs, Clinical Groupware, Workflow Automation, Usability/User Experience, & Kickbiking
- Sunday in the Park Watching Dogs and Thinking about Clinical Groupware
- Clinical Groupware: A Definition
- Clinical Groupware, Care Coordination, and EMR Workflow Systems: Key Ideas
- Thank You to MedicExchange TV Industry News for Mentioning this Blog
- Ten Years Ago, Dallas HIMSS: Landmark Presentation on Modular Pediatric EMR Workflow Groupware
- Question: Are Healthcare Institutions Using Business Process Management Software with Fiscal and EHR/EMR Software? My Answer...
- Coming to
HIMSS inAtlanta? Find the Peach (of a Pediatric EMR), Arrange A Demo, Visit a Practice - 2009 Number One Downloaded Article on Healthcare Technology Online: My White Paper on EMR Workflow, Usability, and Productivity in Pediatric and Primary Care
- A Twitter Holiday: Sun, Sand, Surf, Smartphones, Short URLs, Social MEdia, and EMR Workflow Systems
- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Key West!
- Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, Which EMR is Least Traditional Of All?
- White Paper: Electronic Health Record Workflow Management Systems: The Next Step in EHR Evolution
- Why Specialists Need Speciality-Specific EMRs That Understand More Than Their Specialty
- Well Understood, Consistently Executed, Adaptively Resilient, and Systematically Improvable EHR Workflow
- Workflow-Related Interoperability Requirements for the High-Performance Medical Home
- The High-Performance Medical Home and Pediatric and Primary Care EMR Workflow Systems: Key Ideas
- Does Your EMR's Form Follow Function, or Does Its Function Follow Form?
- The Cognitive Science Behind EMR Usability Checklists
- An Untraditional Website for an Untraditional EMR
- 2009 AAP NCE EncounterPRO Pediatric EMR Trip Report: Demos, Kickbikes, and Workflow
- An Unsolicited but Greatly Appreciated Testimonial from EncounterPRO Pediatric EMR User Michael Anderson, MD, FAAP
- Pediatrician Dr. Roy Benaroch, Author of Two Books on Child Health, to Demo EncounterPRO EMR at AAP National Conference
- Going Live With A Pediatric EMR is as Easy as Jumping Out of an Airplane
- Web Stats, A Bigger and Better Website, and the Future of Pediatric and Primary Care EMRs
- Visit Us at Booth 1543 (See Map) During The Upcoming American Academy of Pediatrics Show in DC
- Interruptions, Usability and Primary Care EMR Workflow
- EHR/EMR Workflow System Usability--Roots in Aviation Human Factors
- "Cheaper By The Dozen" Efficiency Gurus Meet EMR Workflow Systems--Usability Results
- A White Paper About EMR Workflow, Usability, and Productivity in Pediatric and Primary Care
- EMR Featuritis, Usability, and Workflow: A Video
- The Cognitive Psychology of EHR/EMR Usability and Workflow
- A Conversation About EMRs, Workflow, Usability, and Productivity
- Some Mid-Nineties Medical Informatics Course Outlines: Enjoy!
- EHR/EMR Usability: Natural, Consistent, Relevant, Supportive, Flexible Workflow
- How I Became Interested In EHR Workflow Management Systems
- Georgia's Best EMR Used By Three of Top Ten Pediatricians
- HIMSS Davies Award Winning EMR Workflow Systems
- EMR Workflow Systems vs. EHR Workflow Management Systems
- Walking the Fine Line between Marketing and Education
- Apples, Oranges, EHRs, and EHR WfMSs
- Automate Your EMR Cow Paths *and* Reengineer Them Too!
- Could You Do Me a Favor? "Electronic Medical Record Workflow Management: The Workflow of Workflow"
- Video Interview Dr. Armand Gonzalzles: EMR Workflow Management in Primary Care
- "Meaningful Use" and EHR Business Process Management
- (EHR) Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems
- Twitter Updates About Dr. Gonzalzles' Workflow Management EMR Presentation
- Currently Attending The 2009 HIMSS Conference In Chicago
- What’s So Special about EHR Workflow Management Systems?
- Survey: EHR Workflow Management System Features & Functions
- Football Plays and EHR Workflow
- Visualizing Productivity Tradeoffs
- Litmus Test for Detecting Frozen EHR Workflow
- The Next Five Years: The EHR Network Effect
- EncounterPRO User to Present At HIMSS
- Welcome! (EHR + WfMS = EHR WfMS)

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- EMR and HIPAA on MedInfo 2010, Cape Town, South Africa: Some Travel Photos
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read this insightful post on iPad #EHR interface challenges by @chuckwebster: http://j.mp/cbQP2c/via @blausengroup http://bit.ly/doG0iF April 13, 2010
RT@ChuckWebster How Pediatricians May Use an iPad to Help Your Baby http://j.mp/dbhBvw #iPad #pediatrician April 10, 2010
Excellent #ECM article explaining BPM, workflow, and other technologies vs. EHR in healthcare - RT@chuckwebster - http://tinyurl.com/yd4hudj Jan 26th, 2010
"Football Plays and #EHR Workflow" The comments are as good (or better) than the blog entry itself. Fun read. http://ow.ly/VwVT Jan 12th, 2010
This guy is dead on regarding EMR's: http://tinyurl.com/ybgafhx Jan 9th, 2010
Well Understood ...Executed...Resilient... Improvable Pediatric and Primary Care EMR Workflow http://bit.ly/8OBZts Nov 30th, 2009
#emr #ehr A thoughtful paper on how EMR systems can improve the productivity of medical practices: http://tinyurl.com/BR-HotTopics Sep 11th, 2009
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