Clinical and systems transformation: Identifying software testing approaches to identify best practices in interface design, customization and optimization

Health care organizations are working to modernize health care using health information technology. Health information technology has been found to improve the quality of patient care and health care outcomes. Today, it is very important for health information technology professionals to develop high quality and high impact technologies that can support health professionals and patients. Clinical simulations and usability testing are two methodologies that can be used to optimize technologies used in health care. This work will involve the application and advancement of these techniques to the area of clinical systems transformation in health care

Faculty Supervisor:

Elizabeth Borycki

Student:

Helen Monkman

Partner:

IBM Canada

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Victoria