Project 1
Project 1: Work-Centered Design of Care Process Improvements in HIT
Leaders: Jiajie Zhang, Keith Butler, Muhammad Walji
The purpose of Project 1 is to develop short-term quick-fix tools and long-term breakthroughs for HIT usability and workflow challenges, using our work-centered approach which emphasizes the work performed by a distributed system composed of people and technology in a complex context. This is a joint effort between UTHealth and University of Washington, each working on the following:
UTHealth
- Developing methods and tools to quickly identify and prioritize critical usability problems in HIT.
- Developing a work-centered toolkit, based on the TURF EHR Usability Framework for removing usability problems in existing systems and for designing new systems with built-in usability.
Link to UT Health SBMI Research Seminar by Dr. Jiajie Zhang, Presented February 1, 2012
Is Usability More Valuable Than Oil?
University of Washington
- Integrating vendor-focused solutions with social-organizational issues in healthcare environments to increase stakeholder trust, adoption, and ownership of HIT.
- Providing breakthrough tools that increase HIT adoption and meaningful use by making HIT function as an integrated, predictable, cost-effective means for health care delivery.
We expect our methods and tools to have a large impact in improving the adoption and meaningful use of EHRs by clinicians by addressing the urgent usability and workflow challenges in existing systems.
UW-SHARPC Website
"MATH for Evidence-Based HIT" Video
Publications
MATH Method and Toolsuite
Rapid Usability Assessment Overview
TURF Pre-Publication Manuscript
TURF Published Manuscript
