EHR Usability Webinar Series (FREE) Beginning Sept 3rd.

User Centric to Present Health IT Usability Webinar Series
Learn how to measure and improve EHR usability, Beginning Sept 3rd.
Full details can be found at www.hit-usability.com

Additional Details:

User Centric, Inc. is presenting a series of Usability in Health IT Webinars. There is no cost to attend these valuable presentations and they will also be available to registrants after the sessions for on-demand viewing. This series will highlight what usability is, how it is measured and improved in systems such as EHR, eRx, or CPOE, tools and resources needed, and best practices from other industries that have been focusing on usability for years.

PR- August 18, 2009, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – As Electronic Health Record (EHR) Solution Providers race to increase user performance ratings of their systems, User Centric, Inc, offers practical advice for evaluating and designing for the user experience of these products. A series of Webinars will highlight techniques used to measure usability as well as how to design the system that maximizes clinician performance while increasing adoption.

Measuring and improving the usability of Health Information Technology (Health IT) systems has been an important topic of discussion in the recent months. With pressure to achieve meaningful use as a means to realize the HITECH incentives, Health IT professionals are seeking education around tools and methods needed to improve usability and ultimately adoption of their Health IT systems. User Centric, Inc. had initially offered a more localized full-day Health IT Usability Seminar to be held in Chicago, but due to overwhelming demand, opened up the seminar to a National audience via an online presentation series.

Robert Schumacher, PhD, Managing Director and Presenter of the Webinar Series commented, “It’s important to note that a key factor involved with some implementation failures is lack of in-depth usability research prior to system deployment. If Health IT professionals and solution providers can measure and design for the user experience, a barrier to a successful implementation can be overcome.”

The Webinar Series, “Learn How to Improve the User Experience in Health IT,” will begin September 3 and consist of four weekly 90-minute presentations. Full details can be found at http://www.hit-usability.com

User Centric, Inc. is a global user experience research and design firm with a long history of designing highly efficient and usable technologies. Our services include user research, user interface design consulting, information architecture, usability testing, user interface evaluations, eye tracking, and online surveys. Learn more about us at www.UserCentric.com