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Clinical Workflow Center Human factors methods are valuable tools for analyzing the nuances of clinical work.   Gaining familiarity with these methods can require a good deal of time and searching.   A new resource page has been added to Clinical Workflow Center to make life easier for those who want toContinue Reading

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Early on in the development process, most of the information gathered from future users consists of documents (e.g., forms, policy/procedure) and interview data (e.g., feature descriptions, desired functions, specific dislikes, wish-list items, etc.). As a software designer using object-oriented design, the next major step in making this information actionable isContinue Reading

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Requirements are needed to build systems.  Functional requirements state what a system should be able to do (i.e., the features/functions users request). Non-functional requirements address system qualities such as usability and security.   This week’s post moves the prn: OnCall project forward with the version 1.0 of the feature listContinue Reading

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As promised, Clinical Swift has a new home!   The inaugural post, A New Home for Clinical Swift, explains the philosophy and goals of the site. Be sure to take a peek at the Clinical Software Design Principles page. There you will find suggestions for principles that can be used toContinue Reading

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This is the longest period I have ever gone without writing a post.  The long pause was necessary because of changes in personal goals and the world at large.   EHR Science has covered a range of topics over the years—everything from EHR market trends to discrete mathematics.   TopicsContinue Reading