
Usability and Health Care Technology
Academic Press
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2029
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-12-803129-2 (ISBN)
Description
Usability and Health Care Technology details and describes how methods from usability engineering can be effectively applied to improve the usability of healthcare information systems and technologies. The book shows how these methods can be used to design, implement, and test health information systems and applications that will lead to more effective, efficient, and safe systems that better support healthcare work.
Readers will gain an understanding of how usability engineering can be applied in healthcare informatics, as the book details a proven, practical, and effective methodological framework for applying these methods to improve the design, implementation, and optimization of healthcare information systems, technologies, and applications.
Readers will gain an understanding of how usability engineering can be applied in healthcare informatics, as the book details a proven, practical, and effective methodological framework for applying these methods to improve the design, implementation, and optimization of healthcare information systems, technologies, and applications.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
graduate students engaged in health informatics, medical informatics and health information management programs; designers and developers of healthcare IT; managers and directors of healthcare organizations; clinicians involved in IT routines; computer sciences and information technology specialists and students interested in usability and human factors applied in healthcare.
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-803129-2 (9780128031292)
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Persons
Andre Kushniruk, BA, BSc, MSc, PhD is a Professor at the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. Dr. Kushniruk is also an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Aalborg University, Denmark and an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He conducts research in a number of areas including evaluation of the effects of technology in health informatics and improving the usability of healthcare information systems. His work is known internationally and he has published widely in the area of usability engineering in health informatics. His work has involved the development of new methods for designing and evaluating healthcare technologies and systems. He has been involved in bringing usability engineering practices into healthcare for the past twenty years. Dr. Kushniruk has held academic positions at a number of Canadian universities and worked with major hospitals in both Canada, the United States and internationally. He holds undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Biology, as well as a M.Sc. in Computer Science from McMaster University and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from McGill University. Dr. Kushniruk was elected as a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 2009. Elizabeth Borycki, RN, HBScN, MN, PhD is an Associate Professor at the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. Dr. Borycki has worked in numerous roles among them a Clinical Informatics Specialist, an Emergency Program Coordinator, Disease Management Specialist, Consultant and Researcher. She teaches systems evaluation, organizational behaviour and change management, quality improvement, research methods and biomedical fundamentals in the undergraduate and graduate programs in health informatics. Her research interests include clinical informatics, clinical simulations, organizational change management, health information system implementations, patient safety, project management and information seeking involving health information systems. Elizabeth has co-authored numerous papers examining the effects of health information system design upon Patient Safety. More recently, she has edited a book on respiratory disease and has edited a book on the human and social impact of information technologies in healthcare. Dr. Borycki holds a PhD from the University of Toronto.
Author
Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada
Associate Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada
Content
1. Introduction 2. Background - What is Usability and Why is it Critical in Healthcare? 3. Background - What is Usability Engineering and What are its Main Methods? 4. How can Usability Engineering be Applied in Healthcare Informatics 5. Low-cost Rapid Usability Engineering for Improving Clinical Systems 6. Extending Usability Testing to Clinical Simulations for Ensuring System Usability 7. Integrating Usability Engineering Throughout the Healthcare System Development Life Cycle 8. Approaches to Applying Usability Engineering in the Laboratory 9. The Economic and Quality Improvement Argument for Usability Engineering in Healthcare 10. Integrating Usability Engineering into the Roll-out and Deployment of In-house Systems and Vendor-based Systems 11. Application in the Design and Testing of Consumer eHealth Products and Applications 12. Application of Usability Engineering to Ensure Improved System-Organization Fit in the Selection and Procurement of Healthcare Information Systems 13. Usability Standards in Healthcare and Usability Certification 14. Case Studies of Usability Engineering Applied in Healthcare 15. Trends in Usability Engineering in Healthcare 16. Discussion 17. Exercises 18. References 19. Suggested Readings 20. Appendices - including a toolkit containing templates, checklists, guidelines, sample coding schemes, as well as information about and links to websites and locations for purchasing required equipment and relevant journals/conferences