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Healthcare Interface Design is a Course

Healthcare Interface Design

Time limit: 90 days

$250 Enroll

Full course description

An important challenge in the development of computer-based health care environments is the design of effective user interfaces. User interface should be designed with consideration of the information requirements, cognitive capabilities, and limitations of the end users. The goal of this continuing education course is to provide a detailed overview of user interface design for health information systems, medical devices, consumer health web sites, and other healthcare related systems.

Health care professionals will have the opportunity to learn the fundamental principles of human-computer interaction and human factors and learn how to apply them to real world problems. The focus is on learning why and how user-friendly interfaces can greatly improve work productivity and enhance the quality of health care without radically changing the underlying technology.

Course Competencies

Upon successfully finishing the course, the student will attain the following core competencies in the field of health interface design:

Professional Perspective: Acquire professional perspective on human-centered design of health interfaces. Understand and analyze the history and values of the user interface design discipline and its relationship to healthcare fields while demonstrating an ability to read, interpret, and critique the core literature.

Theories, Principles, and Methods: Master the fundamental theories, principles and methods in health interface design.

Problem Identification: Use the methods to identify usability problems of existing products, communicate the findings to developers, designers, decision makers, and make appropriate recommendations.

Problem Solving: Use the methods to understand the space of possible solutions and generate designs that capture essential aspects of the solutions.

Course Learning Objectives 

Upon successfully completing this course, students will:

  • Define usability and describe why usability is important in healthcare interface.
  • Describe human and system factors informing human-computer design and evaluation
  • Conduct user-centered and work-centered needs analysis to develop a healthcare application.
  • Evaluate the usability of an existing system and propose recommendations to improve existing interfaces.