Usability Evaluation of a Medication Reconciliation Tool: Embedding Safety Probes to Assess Users ’ Detection of Medication Discrepancies

Conclusion This is one of the first studies to evaluate the usability of a collaborative medication reconciliation tool and assess HCPs’ and patients’ detection of medication discrepancies. Results demonstrate that embedded safety probes can enhance standard usability methods by measuring additional, clinically-focused usability outcomes. The novel safety probes we used may serve as an initial, standard set for future medication reconciliation research. More prevalent use of safety probes could strengthen usability research for a variety of health information technologies. Graphical abstract
Source: Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research