User Interface and Visualization for Electronic Health Records
~ SharpC at Maryland ~
Participants
Catherine Plaisant,
(Co-PI) - Research Scientist, UMIACS, Associate Director of Research at HCIL
Ben Shneiderman,
(Co-PI) - Professor, Computer Science, Researcher (and Founding Director) at HCIL
Sureyya Tarkan,
Graduate Student at the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland
Tiffany Chao,
Undergraduate Student at the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland
Past participants:
Darya Filippova,
Graduate Student at the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland
Sumit Arora, Graduate Student in the iSchool, University of Maryland
Meirav Taieb-Maimon,
Visiting Professor from the Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Project Description
The University of Maryland is one of the nine institutions participating in the National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare (NCCD)
led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. NCCD is funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT under the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program. This program seeks to support improvements in the quality, safety and efficiency of health care through advanced information technology.
The NCCD award was one of four presented by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to address key barriers to health information technology. NCCD's research focus area is Patient-Centered Cognitive Suport.
In the first phase of this project we exploring prototype user interfaces for 1) tracking lab orders (focusing on how to avoid missing labs), and 2) medication reconciliation (focusing on interaction to combine separate lists into a single reconsiled list).
For more information about our project please contact us...
Electronic medical records: usability challenges and opportunities, Harry Hochheiser, Ben Shneiderman
Simplicity and usability: lessons from a touchscreen electronic medical record system in Malawi, Gerald P. Douglas, Zach Landis-Lewis, Harry Hochheiser
Usability testing EHRs: examples from the front lines, Art Swanson, Scott Lind
Tragic errors: usability and electronic health records, Ben Shneiderman (PDF)
Sureyya Tarkan successfully defended her Ph.D. Proposal on the topic of "Enhancing Timely Management of Workflow with Interactive Visual Displays & Actions for Situation Awareness Processing" (Nov 8, 2011):
Steve Lohr's article on the usability of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) systems appeared in Sunday NY Times Business Section July 17, 2011.
This article strongly supports our efforts to promote public, industry, and government awareness of usability in EHRs.
Ben Shneiderman, who guided Steve Lohr on this topic with interviews and emails, is mentioned in the opening.
Ben Shneiderman testified in front of the ONC/SHARP HIT Policy Committee: Certification/Adoption Workgroup: April 21, 2011 (Text of Testimony)
University of Texas, Houston: Jiaje Jang and Vimla Patel (PIs of the SHARP Project); Eliz Markovitz. Jorge Herskovic, Elmer V Bernstam, Dean Sittig, Hardeep Singh,Archana Laxmisan, and many more...
Washington Hospital Center/MedStar, Washington, DC: A. Zachary Hettinger, Mark Smith
Sponsorship
This work is supported in part by Grant No. 10510592 for Patient-Centered Cognitive Support under the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects Program (SHARP) from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
