Application area User-centered design of clinical decision support systems
Vision
“The vision of the application area is to create clinical decision support systems (CDSS) that are accessible, safe and user-friendly for all user groups and thus make a measurable contribution to the efficiency and quality of healthcare."
User-centered design aims to develop CDSS that are tailored to the actual needs, capabilities and challenges of healthcare users. This approach consistently places the user - whether physician, nurse, patient or relative - at the center of the design process to ensure that the solutions developed are intuitive to use, effective and safe. Through continuous research and iterative testing, barriers caused by poor user-friendliness are removed and sources of error in everyday clinical practice are minimized. This results in systems that increase the quality of care, improve communication between those involved and simplify medical documentation and decision-making processes. Human factors experts, psychologists, media technologists and media communication experts work together on an interdisciplinary basis in the application area to ensure a comprehensive perspective on the design process and a user-centered design of CDSS.
Main topics
The main focus of the application area is on
- Elicitation and definition of user requirements (context analysis, task analysis, development of personas...)
- Conception of “user-friendly” and ergonomic CDSS (low-fidelity to high-fidelity prototypes)
- Usability evaluation of CDSS (expert inspections & user tests)
- Support in the implementation of standard and legally compliant CDSS in accordance with DIN EN 62366-1 (standard-compliant procedure and documentation)
- Empirical acceptance analyses (acceptance surveys) and development of measures for areas requiring action (workshops)
- Development of target group-specific information/training/teaching materials to promote digital skills (content conception and design)
- (if required): Organization of workshops or colloquia in which usability engineering methods are presented or made “tangible” in practice
Contact Person
© MF/Stephan Wiegand
Group leader
NameMs PD Dr. rer. biol. hum. habil. Brita Sedlmayr
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Selected Projects
- ABIDE_MI — Evaluation and further development of the query interface (work package 2)
- Junior Research Group CDS2USE — Prospective user-oriented design of clinical decision support systems in the context of personalized medicine
- PM4Onco — Support in the development of user-centered Patient Reported Outcome (PROMs) visualizations for the Molecular Tumor Board (work package 3 "Patient Journey")
- Teleschlafmedizin — Development of an interface for the tele-sleep medicine platform