A Tale of Two Studies: Evaluating New Technologies in Healthcare
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In this paper we describe our experiences of evaluating healthcare information technologies deployed in two contrasting hospital settings. We discuss the methodologies that we used for the evaluations, the challenges encountered and how existing HCI research methods may be used for evaluating technologies deployed in the healthcare domain.
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