Human Factors in Health Informatics
Week 6-7: Health InformaticsMS Health Outcomes programRelevant Course Objectives:
Compare and contrast a human factors engineering approach with a more traditional engineering approach to healthcare technologyQuestions that might be used to test the extent that you have achieved this objective:
How does an agile approach contrast with traditional approach to development? Why does it promise better results? What is the role of human error and error reporting play? How can informatics play a role in reducing error?Compare and contrast different definitions of health informatics and related terms (e.g. health IT)Questions that might be used to test the extent that you have achieved this objective:
What are human factors? What is user-centered design? Why is the user sometimes not the user? What do we mean by human error? What types of error are there?Explain how the concepts of organizational learning and systems thinking is important in a modern approach to informaticsQuestions that might be used to test the extent that you have achieved this objective:
What is systems thinking? How does systems thinking relate to organizational learning? In what ways are there a lack of organizational learning within medicine? How has the application of organizational learning approaches made a difference in the air travel safety?Illustrate the process of creating health Informatics applicationsQuestions that might be used to test the extent that you have achieved this objective:
How do we incorporate human factors into the development of a technology system? How do we evaluate human factors?Learning Content
Article published by IBM on how the traditional development model discussed last week needs
to change: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/rethink-software-developmentprocess/ index.htmlWatch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jk0uAVdBC4What is organizational learning http://www.pegasuscom.com/aboutol.htmlSystems thinking videos:

Weekly Tasks:
Create a diagram showing a basic taxonomy of human error for each error type give a health related example