Workshop: 15. User Interfaces for Computer-Based Patient Records

Tom Brinck, Diamond Bullet Design; Gary York, ComFrame Software

The patient record is a central artifact used throughout the health care setting, not only by physicians and nurses, but by numerous hospital staff from clinicians to housekeeping. In 1991, the Institute of Medicine produced a report called The Computer-Based Patient Record (CPR) that set down a vision for computerizing the wide variety of activities in documenting, reviewing and storing the patient record. Variations of CPR systems have been known by many names, including "electronic medical records" and "clinical information systems." CPRs offer the potential for substantially reduced healthcare costs and improved patient care, but many would attribute their slow adoption to the difficulty of designing user interfaces appropriate to the incredibly complex domain of health care.

The goals for the workshop are:

• To share research and experience with user interfaces for CPRs
• To lay out a set of findings and usability requirements which guide the design of CPRs
• To prepare a set of user interface guidelines for CPRs, and
• To set forth an agenda for future research and a user interface focus for future systems development.

We invite participation from a wide range of professionals involved with the design, development, deployment and evaluation of the CPR to discuss user interface issues, identify roadblocks in designing effective user interfaces and set an agenda for the future of user interface issues in the design of CPRs.

Up to date information on the workshop will be available at http://www.diamondbullet.com/cpr/.

Contact
Tom Brinck
Diamond Bullet Design
315 W. Huron, Suite 140
Ann Arbor, MI 48103 USA
Tel: +1 313 665 9307
tom@diamondbullet.com