poor usability

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has begun to address deficient clinical IT usability.

A PDF with presentations on the topic from the recent NIST conference on HIT usability is here (warning: very large, 26 MB).

In previous posts on the National Research Council report on HIT, the Joint Commission Sentinel Events Alert, and others on HC Renewal I've alluded to my belief that a root cause of the state of healthcare information technology (high cost, low diffusion, poor usability, poor interoperability, low reliability, questionable benefits, lack of features most helpful to clinicians, etc.) is - to be frank - industry dysfunction.

As readers here know, I have written frequently about the seemingly paradoxical problems commonly experienced by healthcare organizations in their clinical IT (EHR, CPOE, Decision Support, etc.) projects, including at my academic site on this topic.