Usability Measures for Large Scale Adoption of the Standardized Electronic Health Record Databases

With the adoption of Standardized Electronic Health Records (EHRs) databases, recent research studies consider standardization and interoperability. At the same time the need for querying (the archival data) is becoming important. The complex and dynamic nature of these databases give rise to several usability challenges. This study aims to reduce the gap between the designed application flow and user work-flows (anticipated by them) within the system. Moreover, in the case of standardized EHRs databases, there is a need to reduce the dependency on postrelease user-feedbacks and surveys. This will facilitate the task of system redesign (and re-engineering). We assume that socio-technical features of the users and their usage-patterns over the standardized EHRs databases are correlated. Therefore, we propose the application of user-centric design and automated usability support for the standardized EHRs databases. It provides an insight for improving the system on a continuous basis.