Health IT Usability

Writing on the design of clinical software

Abstract flat drawing of a flowsheet: ruled vertical columns crossed by faint horizontal rows, with small marks where values would sit.
Header image 2 of 3 in the rotating pool: the ruled columns of a flowsheet.

Topics

The six standing subject headings used on this site, with the entries filed under each. Every entry belongs to exactly one heading.

Interfaces

The screen itself: layout, forms, tables, and the small decisions that repeat thousands of times a day.

4 entries

Alerts

Warnings, interruptions, and the design problem of saying something without being ignored.

2 entries

Terminology

Codes, abbreviations, units and numbers, and how they survive the trip to a rendered screen.

1 entry

Accessibility

Contrast, keyboard order, zoom and focus in applications that are dense by necessity.

1 entry

Measurement

How usability is observed, timed, counted and questioned, and what each method cannot see.

1 entry

History

What the paper record afforded, what the move to software changed, and what carried over.

1 entry