Physicians’ and Nurses’ Documenting Practices and Implications for Electronic Patient Record Design

Usability and Safety in Electronic Medical Records Interface Design

“…In an empirical investigation of physician and nurse practices in recording information with EPRs, Reuss, Naef, Keller, and Norrie (2007) found the majority of HCWs to identify a lack of flexible ways for entering information to be a usability issue. They conducted interviews with the HCWs and found a desire for entry methods, including drawing sketches, annotating documents, or highlighting relevant data fields.…”

“…Craig & Farrell (2010); Méndez & Ren (2012); Reuss, Naef, Keller, & Norrie (2007) 2. Integrate in EMRs flexible and fast data entry methods, such as voice recognition.…”

Evaluation of the national nursing model and four nursing documentation systems in Finland – Lessons learned and directions for the future

“…Usability evaluation studies carried out in the healthcare domain have shown that there are many problems with the usability of current healthcare IT systems [38][39][40]. For example, use of an information system takes a lot of health professionals' work time [41,42] and there are problems in patient data accessibility [27,43,44]. Literature surveys [40,45] have found that usability studies have often been conducted at the end of the system development life cycle and the methods applied have been evaluation-oriented, including usability tests, expert evaluations and questionnaires.…”

Designing a Physician-Friendly Interface for an Electronic Medical Record System

“…Paper records offer physicians enormous flexibility when documenting and annotating patient information (Reuss et al, 2007). Unfortunately, the interface for many electronic health record systems emphasize capturing patient data in a highly structured or restricted coded form.…”