Article-at-a-Glance Background Numerous quality improvement projects on patient handoffs
have been conducted, yet standardized, reliable measurement tools remain elusive. Handoff …

Background The evolving concepts of pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing and
ambient intelligence are increasingly influencing health care and medicine. Summarizing …

BACKGROUND: While much is known about how to do usability testing of stationary
Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems, less is known about how to do usability testing of …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Inter-clinician communication accounts for more than half of all
information exchanges within the health care system. A non-participatory, qualitative time …

Objectives: Intra-organizational communication is mostly interpersonal. Synchronous
interruptive communication is recognized as aprimary source of inefficiency anderror in …

A central challenge of social computing research is to enable people to communicate
expressively with each other remotely. Augmented reality has great promise for expressive …

Objective: To examine the problem of studying interruption in healthcare. Methods: Review
of the interruption literature from psychology, human-computer interaction; experimental …

Virtual reality (VR) is a technology that allows users to interact with a simulated environment.
VR has been used in a variety of fields, including education, training, and entertainment …

This article presents a complex clinical scenario based on actual communication
breakdowns that led to a sentinel event. Basic communication theory that underlies clinical …

Objectives: This study aims to demonstrate the usability of discourse analyses as a means of
evaluating medical informatics systems by examining one particular computer-based data-to …