Health Care IT Usability: Strategy, Research, Implementation

Purpose:

To promote collaboration in health IT usability among Federal agencies, industry, and academia.

Goal:

Bring together industry, academia, and government to prioritize, align and coordinate short, medium, and long term strategies and tactics to improve the usability of EHRs.

Audience:

Industry, Government, Academia

Objectives:

• Establish an immediate term set of actions to inform the national initiative to drive EHR adoption and meaningful use.
• Develop a strategic approach to measure and assess use of EHRs, and impact of usability on their adoption and innovation.
• Develop strategies to drive bestpractices and innovation to vendor products.
• Inspire follow-on activities in the public and private sectors.

Agenda:

• Preliminary Agenda
• Roundtable Discussion Participants List (PDF, 19 KB) 

Sponsors:

National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Technical Contact:

Lana Lowry, NIST
phone: 301-975-4995
email: llowry@nist.gov