Department of Health Informatics,
HCI 670 User Interface Design for Informatics
HCI 670. Week 1 Discussion Question:
Question:
Describe the benefits of clinical workflow and explain how an EHR-related workflow applies to
informatics.
Adopting an electronic health record (EHR) will change the flow of patients through your organization.
User interactions with software systems are workflows. Using workflow patterns, one can precisely
capture the task. Clinical workflow is the backbone of the health care organization (HealthIT.gov). The