Lopo de Almeida wrote:
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
yes but we must never believe the computer practices medicine. systems
are often scape goated for people not doing their jobs double checking,
and assessing the patient. Even if it is the right drug the patients
condition might change as such it is the humans responsibility to adjust
for the change in condition not the computer.
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