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HIMSS white paper: "usability" critical to adoption of EMRsJuly 2, 2009, 11:21 am by Healthcare IT NewsThe Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's EHR Usability Task Force has released a white paper focusing on the level of usability in electronic medical records and their implementation at healthcare organizations. "Defining and Testing EMR Usability: Principles and Proposed Methods of EMR Usability Evaluation and Rating" identifies usability of software in an EMR as “one of the major factors and possibly the most important factor hindering widespread adoption of EMRs.”
More from Healthcare IT News e-Rx "on ramp" to an electronic healthcare highway for docs Healthcare IT News: March 10, 2010, 9:54 am Nearly 1,000 affiliated physicians of Huntington Memorial Hospital, a 636-bed, not-for-profit hospital in Southern California, are moving to electronic prescribing, a step which hospital officials say will help bring them closer to American Well brings online care platform to New York Healthcare IT News: March 10, 2010, 8:30 am American Well, which offers Web-based physician visits for members of health plans in Hawaii and Minnesota, has landed another contract closer to home. Dutch academic hospital launches new clinical displays Healthcare IT News: March 9, 2010, 11:59 am MC Leeuwarden, based in Friesland, the Netherlands has deployed new clinical review displays across its two locations. The Medical Centre Leeuwarden is considered a top medical teaching hospital, with locations in Leeuwarden and NHS 24 extends contract with Clinical Solutions Healthcare IT News: March 9, 2010, 11:35 am NHS 24, a telephone and online service providing health advice and information in Scotland, has signed an agreement to extend its partnership with Clinical Solutions. Quest Diagnostics, Surescripts create lab/prescription exchange Healthcare IT News: March 9, 2010, 11:01 am Quest Diagnostics, the Madison, N.J.-based provider of clinical laboratory services, and Surescripts, of Alexandria, Va. and St. Paul, Minn., which operates the country’s largest electronic prescribing network, will collaborate on an integrated
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