scholarly journals User-Centered Design Groups to Engage Patients and Caregivers with a Personalized Health Information Technology Tool

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly Maher ◽  
Elizabeth Kaziunas ◽  
Mark Ackerman ◽  
Holly Derry ◽  
Rachel Forringer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Health Information Technology ◽  
Health Information ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Technology Tool ◽  
Personalized Health ◽  
User Centered

Using Scenarios Throughout The User-Centered Design Process in Healthcare

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 610-614
Author(s):  
Carrie Reale ◽  
Ross Speir ◽  
Kurt Ruark ◽  
Jennifer Herout ◽  
Jason Slagle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Health Information ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
User Interactions ◽  
Clinical Scenarios ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
User Centered

Context-specific descriptions of the intended user interactions with health information technology (HIT) systems provide an important perspective to the overall goals of HIT design. These descriptions — or scenarios — that represent the clinicians’ perspectives can describe how HIT should support users in providing patient care effectively, efficiently, and safely. Scenarios may improve the design of HIT systems by ensuring clinician needs are well-articulated for high-value patient-care situations. This Practice- Oriented paper presents suggestions for the development and application of clinical scenarios throughout a robust user-centered design (UCD) process. As a flexible artifact, different types of scenarios can be used at each point across the UCD process and the rationale for their use are discussed, and we suggest key aspects that must be included for each specific type of scenario. This practice innovation will be beneficial to practitioners working within UCD processes, as guidance on adding scenarios as a tool in their work.

Design Consideration of a Health-Information-Technology-Supported Intelligent Urinalysis System

2014 ◽  
Vol 989-994 ◽  
pp. 1077-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Dong
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Health Information Technology ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Vibrio Fischeri ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Daily Monitoring ◽  
On Chip ◽  
High Flexibility ◽  
Personalized Health ◽  
Home Users

Urinalysis is not only widely employed in medical diagnosis but also suitable for household daily monitoring of personal health conditions. However, current urinalysis methods and instruments require more professional knowledge, while the sampling and treatment of urine samples are manual and inconvenient. In this work, a new-concept automatic urinalysis system is proposed to provide personal urinalysis services for home users. The system forms an eco-friendly intelligent toilet, which is of great significances in the future healthcare network. The basic strategy is to design a fixed supporting platform and various disposable urinalysis lab-on-chips with great expansibility and high flexibility. The intelligent device has multiple functions of automatic urine sampling, rapid on-chip detecting, auto-decontaminating and personalized health information technology (HIT) supporting, thus to provide a low-cost solution of automatic urinalysis services for both inpatients in hospitals and home-users. The structure of the urinalysis system logically resembles the frame with fixed smart cellphones and various mobile application programs. Besides, a biological lighting module is also designed to harvest the energy in wasted urine by continuous culturing vibrio fischeri, a luminescent bacterium. The integrated urinalysis system could create the possibility of remote medical services for home users, and meanwhile generates a new branch in the field of microsystem, which is entitled as ‘HIT-oriented lab-on-chips’.

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