Design problems in health

Written by James Robertson, published August 29, 2002

Categorised under: Interface design

Michael B. Moore talks about Top 10 Design Problems in health systems. This covers the usual suspects, but is useful in that it looks at things from a specific health focus.

The main items covered:

  • Information density vs. simplicity
  • Wrong patient
  • Task Interruption
  • Indistinct information spaces
  • Not my hierarchy
  • Doing what we know vs. doing what we need
  • Getting payback early
  • Shifting the burden of work