The American College of Physicians (ACP), representing over 116,000 internal medicine physicians and medical students, is pleased to provide written comments on the Federal role in promoting health information technology (HIT) to improve quality and the value of patient care. These comments are provided for the July 22, 2004 hearing held by the United States (U.S.) Health Subcommittee of the Ho...

A great variety of usability evaluation methods exist but they do not provide the same kind of results and do not address the same stage of the Health Information Technology (HIT) lifecycle. This paper takes stock of the application of expert evaluation, usability testing, clinical simulation, clinical trials and post-implementation surveillance to provide an overview of their main similarities...

BACKGROUND Health information technology (HIT), notably e-prescribing and electronic health records (EHR), have the potential to improve the quality of care, reduce medication errors and adverse events, and decrease overall health care utilization and costs. However, the United States continues to lag behind other countries in the adoption and use of HIT. OBJECTIVE To review the various issue...

Usability testing is increasingly being recognized as a way to increase the usability and safety of health information technology (HIT). Medical simulation centers can serve as testing environments for HIT usability studies. We integrated the quality assurance version of our emergency department (ED) electronic health record (EHR) into our medical simulation center and piloted a clinical care s...

Patient safety can be improved by utilizing Health Information Technology ( HIT). HaiPro is an electronic form for patient’s risk incident notification. Aim of our poster was to gather information on patient’s risk incidents in our unit and to connect these results with previous researches on patient safety. The data was collected from our unit’s HaiPro notifications during January 2011November...

Background: Patient participation in health care is associated with improved outcomes for patients and hospitals. New technologies are creating vast potential for patients to participate in care at the bedside. Several studies have explored patient use, satisfaction and perceptions of health information technology (HIT) interventions in hospital. Understanding what works for whom, under what co...

77 Introduction Health information technology (HIT) is becoming increasingly prevalent in medical offices and facilities. Like President George W. Bush before him, President Obama announced a plan to computerize all Americans’ medical records by 2014. Computerization is certain to transform American health care, but to ensure that its benefits outweigh its risks, the federal government must pro...

BACKGROUND Eye-tracking technology has been used to measure human cognitive processes and has the potential to improve the usability of health information technology (HIT). However, it is still unclear how the eye-tracking method can be integrated with other traditional usability methodologies to achieve its full potential. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to report on HIT evaluation...

Societies are mostly using smartphones and the World Wide Web in the era of information technology, (IT). Information technology and its impact is revealed to everyone on modern society. IT enables communication worldwide but reduced face-to-face interaction, reduced physical activity, made headache, fatness, heart disease, diabetes, neck pain, cost, job loss, and so many other health problems....

OBJECTIVES We describe an innovative community-centered participatory design approach, Consumer-centered Participatory Design (C2PD), and the results of applying C2PD to design and develop a web-based fall prevention system. METHODS We conducted focus groups and design sessions with English- and Spanish-speaking community-dwelling older adults. Focus group data were summarized and used to inf...