Nurses & HIT User Experience: Seeking Stories
Adam Bazer, MPD
Healthcare Senior Leader with a Mission to Improve the Healthcare Experience for Patients, Providers, and Families
Nurses are uniquely qualified to provide valuable insight into improving the usability of healthcare technology and care delivery processes. The HIMSS HIT User Experience Community & Committee is looking for real world stories or case studies regarding interfaces, software applications, point-of-care devices, and care delivery processes that have prevented the efficient and or effective delivery of care, may have resulted in creating errors, or are simply “difficult to use.” We are also looking for success stories in which usability issues were identified, and how you, your team, or others worked to solve it.
We are collecting these stories to help us better hear the voice of nursing on usability. We will use select stories as examples of usability issues in nursing. Any identifying data will be removed if your story is used.
Please submit your story, highlighting key details in about 500-700 words. All submissions are due by close of business on Monday, June 15th. Make your voice be heard.
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8yStories are a wonderful way to share what you wish the IT developers would think about when designing a system! It is important for nurses to know that more usable systems are easier and less frustrating to work with. They are also safer for patients. A usability issue is a snag, or an impediment to completing a task. Too many drop downs and too many pop up alerts are known features that can cause usability issues, but sometimes the concerns are deeper than that and less obvious. There also may be some that are specialty area specific- There is such a need for this – Thanks Adam!