International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 79, Issue 7 , Pages 501-506 , July 2010

Assessing performance of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) using Cognitive Task Analysis

  • Himali Saitwal

      Affiliations

    • School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7000 Fannin Street, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77030, United States. Tel.: +1 832 573 4613; fax: +1 713 500 3929.
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  • Xuan Feng

      Affiliations

    • Arizona State University, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Phoenix, AZ, United States
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  • Muhammad Walji

      Affiliations

    • School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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  • Vimla Patel

      Affiliations

    • School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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  • Jiajie Zhang

      Affiliations

    • School of Health Information Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States

Received 21 September 2009 ,Revised 1 April 2010 ,Accepted 13 April 2010.

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PII: S1386-5056(10)00074-2

doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2010.04.001

International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 79, Issue 7 , Pages 501-506 , July 2010