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Increasing the safety of healthcare information systems through improved procurement: toward a framework for selection of safe healthcare systemsAndre Kushniruk
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Healthc Q 13:53-8. 2010..Here, implications are discussed for the development of improved procurement processes to lead to safer healthcare systems...- Group differences in physician responses to handheld presentation of clinical evidence: a verbal protocol analysisDanielle M Lottridge
Dept of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 7:22. 2007..To identify individual differences in physicians' needs for the presentation of evidence resources and preferences for mobile devices... - Exploring the relationship between training and usability: a study of the impact of usability testing on improving training and system deploymentAndre W Kushniruk
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 143:277-83. 2009..Usability testing methods were found to be an important adjunct to system deployment: they can improve the system implementation as well as suggest strategies for user education... - Preventing technology-induced errors in healthcare: the role of simulationAndre W Kushniruk
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 143:273-6. 2009..In closing, we discuss how the approach can be used to increase the safety of health information systems... - Bringing electronic patient records into health professional education: towards an integrative frameworkAndre W Kushniruk
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P5, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 150:883-7. 2009.... - Integrating technology-centric and user-centric system testing methods: ensuring healthcare system usability and safetyAndre Kushniruk
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 157:181-6. 2010..It is argued that both technology and user-centered approaches should be employed before the release of a complex health information system in order to ensure that it is safe and does not inadvertently introduce error... - Using a low-cost simulation approach for assessing the impact of a medication administration system on workflowA W Kushniruk
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 136:567-72. 2008.... - Emerging approaches to usability evaluation of health information systems: towards in-situ analysis of complex healthcare systems and environmentsAndre W Kushniruk
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 169:915-9. 2011..We discuss how this approach was extended to development of methods for conducting in-situ clinical simulations in a range of clinical settings... - Predicting changes in workflow resulting from healthcare information systems: ensuring the safety of healthcareAndre Kushniruk
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, BC
Healthc Q 9:114-8. 2006..It is argued that there is a need for thorough simulation-based testing of systems under a variety of conditions before they are released in order to ensure the safety of healthcare... - Low-cost rapid usability engineering: designing and customizing usable healthcare information systemsAndre W Kushniruk
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria
Healthc Q 9:98-100, 102. 2006..g., in hospital wards)... - Cognitive analysis of a medication reconciliation tool: applying laboratory and naturalistic approaches to system evaluationAndre W Kushniruk
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 164:203-7. 2011.... - Exploring the relationship between usability and technology-induced error: unraveling a complex interactionAndre Kushniruk
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 166:48-56. 2011..We conclude with a discussion of recent trends in the area of usability engineering in healthcare that have potential for improving the safety of healthcare information systems... - Technology induced error and usability: the relationship between usability problems and prescription errors when using a handheld applicationAndre W Kushniruk
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Human and Social Development Building A202, 3800 Finnerty Road Ring Road, Victoria, BC, Canada V8P 5C2
Int J Med Inform 74:519-26. 2005..Implications for identifying and predicting technology-induced error are discussed in the context of improving the safety of health care information systems... - Selecting electronic health record systems: development of a framework for testing candidate systemsAndre W Kushniruk
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 143:376-9. 2009..In our work we consider system selection in terms of strength of evidence obtained from testing candidate systems... - Can cloud computing benefit health services? - a SWOT analysisMu Hsing Kuo
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 169:379-83. 2011..The paper concludes that cloud computing could have huge benefits for healthcare but there are a number of issues that will need to be addressed before its widespread use in healthcare... - Theories, models and frameworks for diagnosing technology-induced errorElizabeth Borycki
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 160:714-8. 2010.... - The development of a risk identification screening framework for healthcare information systemsElizabeth Keay
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 143:400-5. 2009..Such analyses could be important in improving the fit of information systems in healthcare, thereby decreasing risk of system and project failure. A risk-screening framework for health informatics is presented... - Technical and architectural issues in deploying electronic health records (EHRs) over the WWWBrian Armstrong
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 143:93-8. 2009..Security, technical and budgetary considerations are described as well as past and current applications of the architecture for a number of projects for the education of health professionals in the area of electronic health records... - Toward an integrated simulation approach for predicting and preventing technology-induced errors in healthcare: implications for healthcare decision-makersElizabeth M Borycki
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Healthc Q 12:90-6. 2009..Implications of this work for healthcare institutions and policy decision-making are explored... - The eFOSTr PROJECT: design, implementation and evaluation of a web-based Personal Health Record to support health professionals and families of children undergoing transplantsJames Popkin
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 143:358-63. 2009.... - Improving the efficiency and accuracy of a tablet PC interface for computerized provider order entry through usability evaluation and provision of data entry strategiesJohn Dawson
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 143:447-52. 2009..Field-specific data entry strategies introduced during user training were adopted 77.6% of the time and resulted in improved efficiency... - Solutions for deploying multi-architecture EHRs on a single EHR educational portalBrian Armstrong
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 150:167-71. 2009..e., health professional students) in order to work with representative EHRs for educational purposes. The overall architecture is described and issues related to the challenges in allowing for the hosting of systems of divers designs... - The usability axiom of medical information systemsStefan V Pantazi
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Int J Med Inform 75:829-39. 2006..We then try to show why, given existing technology, the axiom is a paradox and we continue with analysing and reformulating it several times, from more fundamental information processing perspectives... - A literature review on distance knowledge exchange in healthcare groups: what can we learn from the ICT literature?Mowafa Said Househ
College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Bin Abdul Aziz University for Health Science, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
J Med Syst 35:639-46. 2011..A discussion of how ICTs could impact the social interaction process of knowledge exchange activities is made... - Technology enabled knowledge exchange: development of a conceptual frameworkMowafa Househ
College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Bin Abdul Aziz University for Health Science, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
J Med Syst 35:713-21. 2011..Results of a refined conceptual framework based on a 2-year case study are also provided in the model where new inputs and processes are introduced... - A case study examining the impacts of conferencing technologies in distributed healthcare groupsMowafa Househ
Northern Health Authority, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Healthc Q 12:112-5. 2009..In this paper, we describe key lessons learned from a two-year case study (2004-2006) on the impacts of conferencing technologies on social interaction norms within knowledge exchange groups... - An RDF-based mediator for health data interoperabilityMu Hsing Kuo
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, V8W 3P5 Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 150:399-403. 2009..The proposed mediator is expected to make health information exchange more efficient... - A healthcare Lean Six Sigma System for postanesthesia care unit workflow improvementAlex Mu Hsing Kuo
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Qual Manag Health Care 20:4-14. 2011..The aim of this article is to propose a new model called Healthcare Lean Six Sigma System that integrates Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to improve workflow in a postanesthesia care unit... - Identifying and preventing technology-induced error using simulations: application of usability engineering techniquesElizabeth Borycki
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Healthc Q 8:99-105. 2005..It is argued that health care information systems will need to undergo more rigorous evaluation under simulated conditions in order to detect and prevent technology-induced errors before they are deployed in real healthcare settings... - Incorporation of medical informatics and information technology as core components of undergraduate medical education - time for change!Anthony Otto
School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Stud Health Technol Inform 143:62-7. 2009.... - What nurses want: diffusion of an innovationTammie Di Pietro
Lawrence S Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Nurs Care Qual 23:140-6. 2008..Nurses liked the portability and size of the PDA, as well as ease of use of the PDA software. Electronic decision support tools at point of care have the potential to improve nurses' research utilization and quality of care... - The relationship of usability to medical error: an evaluation of errors associated with usability problems in the use of a handheld application for prescribing medicationsAndre Kushniruk
Information Technology Program, York University, Toronto, Canada
Medinfo 11:1073-6. 2004..Implications for the improvement of safety of health care information systems are discussed... - A framework for capturing the interactions between laypersons' understanding of disease, information gathering behaviors, and actions taken during an epidemicLaura Slaughter
Laboratory of Decision Making and Cognition, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, NY, USA
J Biomed Inform 38:298-313. 2005..Having a good model of lay actions based on information received and beliefs held will contribute to the development of more effective information support systems in the event of a future epidemic... - Evaluation in the design of health information systems: application of approaches emerging from usability engineeringAndre Kushniruk
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Information Technology Division, York University, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, Ont, Canada M3J 1P3
Comput Biol Med 32:141-9. 2002..Implications for future work exploring the integration of design and evaluation processes in health informatics are discussed...