ArticleApplied clinical informatics2024
Realizing the Full Potential of Clinical Decision Support: Translating Usability Testing into Routine Practice in Health Care Operations.
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Abstract
backgroundClinical Decision Support (CDS) tools have a mixed record of effectiveness, often due to inadequate alignment with clinical workflows and poor usability. While there is a consensus that usability testing methods address these issues, in practice, usability testing is generally only used for selected projects (such as funded research studies). There is a critical need for CDS operations to apply usability testing to all CDS implementations.
objectivesIn this State of the Art/Best Practice paper, we share challenges with scaling usability in health care operations and alternative methods and CDS governance structures to enable usability testing as a routine practice.
methodsWe coalesce our experience and results of applying
resultsWe demonstrate the feasibility of adopting "
conclusionAlthough some methodological rigor was relaxed to accommodate operational speed, the benefits outweighed the limitations. Broader adoption of usability testing may transform CDS implementation and improve health outcomes.
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