by Theo Mandel | Aug 8, 2011 | Healthcare Usability, Real-World Usability, User Centered Design (UCD)
View an amazing collection of new military healthcare devices in the battlefield! “With the growing swiftness and capability of today’s technology, medical tools are increasing in their specificity to meet military healthcare needs. The combat environment...
by Theo Mandel | Jul 3, 2011 | Healthcare Usability, Real-World Usability, User Experience
Going back to my beginnings in the new field of building “user-friendly” software in the early 1980’s, usability began a long history as a potential product differentiator in a competitive field. Now, with the onset of a multitude of EMR software...
by Theo Mandel | May 12, 2011 | Application Usability, Healthcare Usability, Product Design, Product Development, Real-World Usability, Technology, Users
This is a classic debate – whether it is nobler to be consistent or to be usable! EMRs have notoriously been both inconsistent and also very unusable. So, what to do – fix the inconsistencies or fix the usability issues? The problem is, fixing one of these...
by Theo Mandel | Apr 25, 2011 | Application Usability, Healthcare Usability, Technology, User Centered Design (UCD)
I’ve worked in healthcare usability for a long time and with the impetus to move all of healthcare to electronic platforms, there have been many, many unusable implementations of EHRs and EMRs. The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)...
by Theo Mandel | Feb 27, 2011 | Application Usability, Healthcare Usability, Mobile Usability, Real-World Usability, Technology, Usability Consulting, User Centered Design (UCD), User Experience, Web Usability
As a user experience professional designing EMR, EHR and case management software in the healthcare industry, there are few opportunities to educate, learn, network and focus on UX in healthcare. Well, look no longer!! I’m excited to hear about the Healthcare...
by Theo Mandel | Feb 21, 2011 | Application Usability, Healthcare Usability, Marketing Usability, Mobile Usability, Product Design, Product Development, Technology, Usability Consulting, User Centered Design (UCD), User Experience, Web Usability
There have been a number of recent articles, blog posts and list comments trashing user experience design (UX) as unneeded, misguided and counter-productive to good product design and development. As a long-time user experience practitioner, I was taken aback by these...
