Design and evaluation of an interface for querying electronic records for rheumatology patients.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780494161654
Description: Physicians need to integrate large amounts of information from patient records to determine their patients' current status. To design a user-friendly querying interface for retrieving and querying data from modern electronic patient records (EPR), a good understanding of the associated cognitive processes is essential. In this thesis the abstraction hierarchy (AH) is discussed as a tool both for understanding the EPR work domain in rheumatology, and for guiding the development of a new EPR interface for use by rheumatologists. Following an analysis of the EPR information needs in rheumatology, carried out during a 14-month field study, a prototype information-querying interface was constructed, using AH as a conceptual framework. In the final phase, a series of evaluations was carried out, consisting of high-level exploratory interviews with practitioners, a cognitive walkthrough, and a heuristic evaluation.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, page: 2951.

Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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