Category Archives: EHR Workflow

Usable Clinical Groupware Requires Modular Components and Business Process Management

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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.
Let’s break this long and complicated sentence into parts, understand them, and then understand the [...]

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Tweeting Live from HIMSS, March 1-4, Atlanta: Pediatric & Primary Care, EMR/EHRs, Clinical Groupware, Workflow Automation, Usability/User Experience, & Kickbiking

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Here are the most recent 20 tweets from @EMRGroupware: Auxiliary account used by @chuckwebster for real-time, high-frequency, event-related Twittering (not wishing to flood timelines following @chuckwebster). Next use: HIMSS March 1-4, Atlanta. Feel free to follow and respond to me (temporarily at @EMRGroupware) on Twitter (my replies with links to your tweet should [...]

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Sunday in the Park Watching Dogs and Thinking about Clinical Groupware

I do some of my best thinking while watching dogs gambol in the park (for example, see Does Your Pediatric EMR’s Form Follow Function, or Does Its Function Follow Form?).
A couple of days ago I drafted a definition for clinical groupware (Clinical Groupware: A Definition). There are things I like about it (with respect to the [...]

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Clinical Groupware: A Definition

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Last week I highlighted several dozen quotes about groupware, coordination, and workflow, and supplied commentary about their relevance to clinical groupware. This week I thought I’d take a stab at defining “clinical groupware” itself.
But first, what constitutes a good definition?

Southern Rose Buggy Tours
Beaufort, South Carolina
(From my recent vacation there)
While a graduate student in [...]

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Clinical Groupware, Care Coordination, and EMR Workflow Systems: Key Ideas

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As the phrase “clinical groupware” gains currency, it’s worth considering the history of groupware in general, and workflow in particular, to understand the relationship between EMR workflow systems and clinical groupware. This relationship is at the technological heart of the care coordination problem.
Workflow systems are a form of groupware, and EMR workflow systems [...]

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