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New AHRQ Guide Identifies Successful Design Methods for Development of Consumer Health IT
A new AHRQ guide, Designing Consumer Health IT: A Guide for Developers and Systems Designers, presents suggested recommendations for designers and developers of consumer health IT products.Recommendations
include general guidance for designers and design teams on the process
of designing and developing a product and guidance that is specific to a
design phase such as idea generation, identification of end users,
testing, and commercialization. The guide includes results of an
environmental scan and grey literature review along with expert
interviews to improve consumer health IT design to increase effective
use.Select to access this report (PDF file, PDF Help).
patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.
