Guidelines for Designing Usable Health Information Systems
Language: English
Published by Radhika Narayan, 2025
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- Title
- Guidelines for Designing Usable Health Information Systems
- Author
- Radhika Narayan
- Publisher
- Radhika Narayan
- Publication year
- 2025
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- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
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- 9781918352252
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In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital healthcare, Guidelines for Designing Usable Health Information Systems by Radhika Narayan emerges as an essential guide for crafting intuitive, efficient, and user-centred digital tools that truly support healthcare delivery. With over 25 years of hands-on experience as a Health IT professional, Business Analyst, Product Owner, and researcher, Narayan delivers a practical, evidence-based roadmap for designers, developers, product managers, and healthcare leaders to build Health Information Systems (HIS) that enhance clinical decision-making, reduce errors, and prioritize patient safety.
This comprehensive eBook addresses the persistent usability challenges in HIS-cluttered interfaces, inconsistent navigation, poor data visualization, and inadequate accessibility-that frustrate clinicians and compromise care quality. Through real-world examples, case studies, and actionable guidelines, Narayan reveals how thoughtful design can transform complex workflows into seamless, error-resistant experiences.
Key topics include:
- Identifying and Avoiding Common UI Mistakes: From overloaded screens to unresponsive layouts, learn how to prevent cognitive overload and clinical risk.
- Core UX Principles for HIS: Involve users early, anticipate needs, maintain consistency, enable exploration, and design for error prevention and recovery.
- GUI Design for Usability and Safety: Support cognitive workflows, ensure information accessibility, follow standards, accommodate diverse expertise, and enable rapid iteration.
- Do's and Don'ts of UX in Healthcare: A concise, practical checklist for creating task-friendly, readable, and responsive interfaces.
- Scientific UX Methodologies: Compare Waterfall, Lean UX, and Agile approaches with healthcare-specific use cases to drive efficient, adaptive development.
- Design's Role in Patient Safety: Explore how effective allergy alerts, lab result highlighting, and patient leaflet management prevent life-threatening errors.
- Debunking Myths in Health IT: Usability depends not just on design, but on training, content flow, and evidence-based requirements.
- Security, Privacy, and Compliance: Implement HIPAA-compliant GUIs with access controls, audit trails, alias names, biometrics, and role-based permissions to safeguard confidentiality.
- Positive Psychology in UX Design: Apply the PERMA model (Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment) to reduce developer burnout, boost motivation, and create meaningful, engaging systems.
- Customer Journey Mapping: Visualize clinician and patient interactions to uncover pain points and design holistic, empathetic solutions.
- Continuous Evolution of HIS: Embrace iterative design, user feedback, and ethical principles to future-proof healthcare technology.
Grounded in seminal research from Nielsen, Shneiderman, and Seligman, and enriched by Narayan's current study on the 'Meaning' element of PERMA in healthcare technology, this book goes beyond theory. It equips readers to reflect on design flaws, implement best practices, and understand how usability directly impacts patient confidentiality, operational efficiency, and care outcomes.
Whether developing EHRs, patient portals, telemedicine platforms, or administrative tools, this eBook is your blueprint for creating systems that empower users, minimize frustration, and elevate healthcare. Discover more insights and join the conversation at PERMA Integrated Health-where positive psychology meets practical innovation.
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