A
new guide funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ) “Designing Consumer Health IT: A Guide for Developers and Systems
Designers” presents suggested recommendations for designers and
developers of consumer health IT products. Recommendations included are
either general guidance for designers and design teams that can be
applied to the process of designing and developing a product; or
specific to a design phase such as idea generation, identification of
end users, testing and commercialization. The guide presents results of
an environmental scan and grey literature review; and expert interviews
to improve consumer health IT design in order to increase effective use
of consumer health IT. Select to access this report (PDF file, 299 MB), http://healthit.ahrq.gov/ developmentmethodsguide.
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Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
- 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.