Smartphone to-do list application to improve workflow in an intensive care unit: A superiority quasi-experimental study

Human Factors and Organizational Issues in Health Informatics: Innovations and Opportunities

OBJECTIVE

Human factors and ergonomics (HF/E) frameworks and methods are becoming embedded in the health informatics community. There is now broad recognition that health informatics tools must account for the diverse needs, characteristics, and abilities of end users, as well as their context of use. The objective of this review is to synthesize the current nature and scope of HF/E integration into the health informatics community.

METHODS

Because the focus of this synthesis is on understanding the current integration of the HF/E and health informatics research communities, we manually reviewed all manuscripts published in primary HF/E and health informatics journals during 2020.

RESULTS

HF/E-focused health informatics studies included in this synthesis focused heavily on EHR customizations, specifically clinical decision support customizations and customized data displays, and on mobile health innovations. While HF/E methods aimed to jointly improve end user safety, performance, and satisfaction, most HF/E-focused health informatics studies measured only end user satisfaction.

CONCLUSION

HF/E-focused health informatics researchers need to identify and communicate methodological standards specific to health informatics, to better synthesize findings across resource intensive HF/E-focused health informatics studies. Important gaps in the HF/E design and evaluation process should be addressed in future work, including support for technology development platforms and training programs so that health informatics designers are as diverse as end users.

The role of e-health in improving control and management of COVID 19 outbreak: current perspectives

E-health could play an important role in the global response to Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This paper aims to outline the roles of using e-health in the control and management of COVID-19 based on current perspectives. Many databases and health organizations were searched. The results indicated that there are significant roles of e-health in strengthening the efforts to control and manage this COVID-19 pandemic through improving safe coordination and communication, affording an alternative for education and training, analyzing the data, and providing safe care. Further studies are recommended to evaluate the role of e-health in the control and management of COVID-19.