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My explorations in clinical care system design are progressing well.   In particular, I am pleased with the responses to the posts on primary care and EHR design.  There is a groundswell of interest in better systems that do more to help clinicians with the tasks they find burdensome.  PerhapsContinue Reading

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Testing is one of the most tedious and difficult aspects of software development, and the more complex the system, the more problematic the testing.   Bugs always happen. However, if one is lucky, bugs are easily spotted and have few deleterious effects.  Unfortunately, bugs occur in many ways that areContinue Reading

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In: Clinical Care Systems, Clinical Software Design, EHR Design, EHR Usability, User-Centered Design

Good user interfaces are hard to create, and unfortunately, the UI often receives less design attention that other aspects of a software system.   Personally, I see this as a developer fatigue issue. After the wrangling with objects, algorithms, APIs, security, and such, it is tempting to slap on a UIContinue Reading

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Change is always a challenge, and how much more so when software is involved.   Software implementation brings headaches from the software itself (installation, configuration, training) as well as the necessary adaptations in workflows (how work is accomplished) and work habits (how individuals do their jobs).   One assumption underlying nearly allContinue Reading

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I have been anticipating this post for some time now.   After making my way past graph theory, Petri nets, and BPMN 2.0,  then experimenting with several BPM suites, I can finally focus on designing clinical workflow applications!  When I began investigating workflow technology, my main goal was finding BPM suites with fourContinue Reading