Medical Usability: How to Kill Patients Through Bad Design "A field study identified twenty-two ways that automated hospital systems can result in the wrong medication being dispensed to patients. Most of these flaws are classic usability problems that have been understood for decades.
Usability is often a matter of life or death. In a fighter plane's user interface, for example, taking a second off the time required to operate targeting-and-firing systems offers pilots a dramatic edge in dog-fights." in http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050411.html This is related to the other study from JAMA already mentioned but now from the point of view of usability. I think this is a very important text to take in consideration on Care2x development. 1, Lopo -- Care2x - Integrated Healthcare Environment http://www.care2x.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Project Team Member Humaneasy Consulting http://www.humaneasy.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Care2002-developers mailing list Care2002-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/care2002-developers
