Medical Usability: How to Kill Patients Through Bad Design

Useit.Com: Medical Usability: How to Kill Patients Through Bad Design.
In a recent Journal of the American Medical Association paper, Ross
Koppel and colleagues reported on a field study of a hospital's
order-entry system, which physicians use to specify patient
medications. The study identified twenty-two ways in which the system
caused patients to get the wrong medicine. [Tomalak's Realm]

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