Quick Guide to Health Literacy
The Quick Guide to Health Literacy is for government employees, grantees and contractors, and community partners working in healthcare and public health fields. It contains:A basic overview of key health literacy concepts, Techniques for improving health literacy through communication, navigation, knowledge-building, and advocacy, Examples of health literacy best practices
Source: US Dept of Health and Human Services

Electronic Health Record Usability - Interface Design Considerations
To support research and policy formation in the area of Electronic Health Record (EHR) usability, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) commissioned the “Use of Dense Display and Information Design Principles in Primary Care Health IT Systems” study. This study establishes a foundation of EHR interface design considerations and proposes an action-agenda for the application of information design principles to the use of health information technology (health IT) in primary care settings.
Source: healthit.ahrq.gov

Electronic Health Record Usability - Evaluation and Use Case Framework
Source: healthit.ahrq.gov

Health IT Program and EHR Usability Projects
Source: HIMSS.org

Usability Guidelines
Throughout your Web design or redesign project, you should take advantage of what is already known about best practices for each step of the process. The Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines, compiled through an extensive process of research and review, bring you those best practices. Source: Usability.gov

Section 508 - Accessibility Guidelines and Standards
Section 508 requires that all Web site content be equally accessible to people with disabilities. This applies to Web applications, Web pages and all attached files. It applies to intranet as well as public-facing Web pages.
Source: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Microsoft Health Common User Interface
The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) provides User Interface Design Guidance and Toolkit controls that address a wide range of patient safety concerns for healthcare organizations worldwide, enabling a new generation of safer, more usable and compelling health applications to be quickly and easily created.
Patient Journey Demonstrator: Watch / Read

The Future of Healthcare is Social
Fortunately, we are at an inflection point in history both from a policy and technological perspective. Advances in wirelessly connected devices and social networking platforms will make the job of a “family health manager” much easier, more meaningful, and more effective.
Courtesy: Fast Company Read

Understanding & Rating the Usability of the EMR
Cost and loss of productivity are most often cited as reasons for slow progress for EMR implementation…but…what about usability?
Full article

HIMSS Articles and Presentations
The Role of Usability and Adoption in the EHR - Presentation
The Role of Usability and Adoption in the EHR Overview and UI Productivity - Presentation
The Role of Usability and Adoption in the EHR - Presentation
Defining and Testing EMR Usability: Principles and Proposed Methods of EMR Usability Evaluation and Rating - PDF

Cloud Computing architecture
Cloud computing promises to increase the velocity with which applications are deployed, increase innovation, and lower costs, all while increasing business agility. Sun takes an inclusive view of cloud computing that allows it to support every facet, including the server, storage, network, and virtualization technology that drives cloud computing environments to the software that runs in virtual appliances that can be used to assemble applications in minimal time. This white paper discusses how cloud computing transforms the way we design,
build, and deliver applications, and the architectural considerations that enterprises must make when adopting and using cloud computing technology.
Source: Sun Microsystem Full Article - PDF

Simplifying for Usability
"Simplifying for Usability" sets out to help software developers in this effort by proposing a number of
"simplification principles" that can be used as guidelines for achieving simple and easy-to-use applications. These guidelines are not specific to a certain technology and can be applied to any user interface design.
Source: SAP Design Guild Format: HTML, PDF

User Day Toolkit
The User Day is a tool to accomplish this aim by introducing suitable user-centered tools for gathering user’s feedback. The User Day will check an application’s design and to systematically detect difficulties with its usage.
Source: SAP Design Guild Format: HTML, PDF

UX - User Experience Magazine
UX - User Experience is a magazine by and about usability professionals, featuring significant and unique articles dealing with the broad field of usability and the user experience. UX - User Experience offers an editorial balance among strategy, management issues, philosophy, methodology and practice.
Souce: Usability Professional Association UX Magazine Issue Index

Journal of Usability Study (JUS) - UPA Publications
A quarterly peer-reviewed, international, online publication promoting and enhancing the practice, research, and education of usability engineering.
* How To Specify the Participant Group Size for Usability Studies
Author: Ritch Macefield Nov 2009
* Visual Attention in Newspaper versus TV-Oriented News Websites
Author: William J. Gibbs and Ronan S. Bernas Aug 2009
* International Standards for Usability Should Be More Widely Used
Author: Nigel Bevan May 2009
* Usability of Electronic Medical Records
Author: John B. Smelcer, Hal Miller-Jacobs, Lyle Kantrovich Feb 2009
* Making Usability Recommendations Useful and Usable
Author: Rolf Molich, Robin Jeffries, Joseph Dumas Aug 2007
* Using Eye Tracking to Compare Web Page Designs: A Case Study
Author: Agnieszka Bojko May 2006

Ideaworks for Healthcare
Ideaworks for Healthcare has been created as a neutral platform for all interested parties to share information, discuss and co- operate on topics affecting healthcare innovation.
Ideaworks for Healthcare is hosted by iSOFT’s Clinical Innovation team under the leadership of Michael Dahlweid. The mission of the team is to look beyond the current plans and product roadmaps for iSOFT’s existing portfolio of solutions, to focus upon global trends and giant leaps of innovation in healthcare and technology.
Visit @ http://ideaworksforhealthcare.com/