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...
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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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- chuckwebster on Will the Apple iPad Force Healthcare to Finally Abandon Outmoded User Interface Designs?
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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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