Designing Personal Health Records with Accessibility in Mind
From: Healthcare Informatics - 01/22/2015
By: David Raths

"Accessible Designs for Personal Health Records" prototype is based on
disabled users' needs

Dean Karavite, the lead human computer interaction specialist in the
Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia, described a three-year, grant-funded project Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia has partnered on with the WGBH National Center for
Accessible Media in Boston and Inglis House, a Philadelphia nonprofit
organization that manages the care of people with severe disabilities. They
set out to investigate how the benefits of medical information technologies
could be expanded to fully include people with sensory and mobility
disabilities. Despite the significant investments being made to accelerate
the adoption of EHRs and personal health records (PHRs), the researchers
found that people with disabilities are generally excluded from using these
systems due to infrastructure limitations, inaccessible interface designs,
and inaccessible content. The Accessible Designs for Personal Health Records
project worked with a cohort of disabled people to identify their health IT
needs and the current state of PHR accessibility and then designed a
prototype based on the principles of both accessibility and usability.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/blogs/david-raths/designing-phrs-accessibility-mind

Links:
Dean Karavite
http://www.deankaravite.com/currentwork.html

National Center for Accessible Media
http://ncam.wgbh.org/