HealthCareUsability

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released a set of new certification and meaningful use requirements for electronic health records (EHRs). These require that EHR vendors include evidence of user-centered design and user test results in their certification submission. To be able to obtain the ONC certification (and meaningful use funding) EHR vendors must follow a formal User Centered Design (UCD) process and perform summative usability testing on specific areas of the product. HealthCare Usability can help you create summative and formative usability evaluations using the NISTIR 7742 Customized Common Industry Format Template for EHR Usability Testing.