Keith Butler, HCDE Research Scientist Principal
September 24, 2014
4:30–5:20 p.m.
Mary Gates Hall (MGH), room 241

Improving the way healthcare can be performed by clinicians is a fundamental goal of health information technology (HIT). The industry’s record, however, suffers from an erratic, hit-or-miss reputation that risks patient safety, care disruption, and undermines efficiency gains needed to control cost. Standard deign methods, such as iterative prototyping and usability testing, were adequate for applications used in offices and homes but never intended for health/safety-critical domains. This talk will introduce a theory of Constraint-Based Design (CBD) for interactive systems that partitions principle design influences into independent factors and their relative importance. The talk will illustrate how CBD has been applied to HIT systems to design measurable improvements for primary care and MS care. The talk will conclude with research directions that include model-checking for verification of interactive systems for clinical care.

About the Speaker

Keith Butler is a Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, and the PI for AHRQ’s project on workflow modeling for clinical health IT. He is one of the originators of the field of usability engineering, lead author of the ISO standard for usability testing that was recently adapted for EHR certification, and a member of NASA’s standing research review panel on space human factors. Before joining UW he was a Technical Fellow in Boeing Math & Computing Technology, and Director of Future Products and Architecture in Microsoft Global Services Automation.

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