"Hi Adam, This is a very late response, but please feel free to look me up and contact me (I sent a friend request). I work in informatics research at a pediatric hospital and we are developing complex decision support and shared decision making…"

"Thanks for posting this Peter, I'm going to offer something that comes from a completely different direction. I don't have anything to cite, but I have spoken to a number of people about a completely different approach that seems to be…"

"Good to see your question Nicole, and thanks for the link to the Wikipedia list. I must admit I have not come across a related discussion on the Design for Care site. We are not asking questions about (at least current) open source EHR or HIT…"

"Dean and Christopher, I couldn't agree more -- a patient-centered data model supporting a user-centered system of interfaces is the ideal we should be working toward. Unlike yourselves, I'm a freelance interaction designer without medical…"

"[Article] Study Casts Doubt on I.T. Benefits A new study of cost data for 4,000 hospitals contends there is no evidence that computerization has lowered costs or streamlined administration. The study, published Nov. 20 and based on data from 2003 to…"

"Thanks Colleen! Apologies for the delay in responding, I didn't get a notification that you posted. Along the same line of thought regarding the PHR, I put together this post for today. David Blumenthal quoted:…"

"Hello, I wanted to share the CHI*Atlanta (local chapter of ACM SIGCHI) recently held a wonderful panel event about electronic health records including Kaiser Permanente, CDC, and Greenway Medical Technologies. (See the slides.) The slides…"

"Hi Christopher, I didn't see your response as harsh, just passionate! That's a good thing. It's clear you want UX to be more involved. I found myself agreeing with you. As proof, see this rather long winded post on Lou's blog…"

"Wow, re-reading that I see I was a little harsh... Of course there are many people in the EHR field who want to bring usability and user experience lessons learned in other domains to the medical domain. I didn't mean to slight them, but rather…"

"I have recently been superficially exposed to some EHR systems, and I am dumbfounded. For years I thought that EHR systems were enormously complex data systems -- more complex than, say, any web-based application or business database. I thought,…"

"Hello All, This forum hasn't seen any activity for a while. I'm sure many are interested in EHR design and have a wealth of ideas, so I'm concerned about how I may have managed or opened the discussion. I thought I would try again by…"

"Hi Diana, I know a few people at our hospital who are working on something similar. If you want, please feel free to email me and I could put you in touch. In the mean time, I won't pretend to have the answers, but will give it a…"

"Hey Bryce, "dated technology stuff" just shows you were way ahead of the game! :-) I think you raise a super important topic. I believe that the entire field of healthcare is quite open to collaboration and information sharing, they just…"

"Hi Dean, By way of introduction, I currently work in the information systems department at a specialty hospital managing the development and support for our patient portal secure Web site. Given your extensive experience with various EHRs and their…"

"Dean - I had to post this today because I am both astonished and spooked at the level of specificity the Google ads have with respect to content on the book community site. The top ad link was a link directly to UserCentric's whitepaper on…"

"Okay, down to business. I had sent Peter some topics for discussion in what might be categorized as design issues. For example: 1. Design strategy of the contemporary EHR. Currently mimics paper processes. Decision support is rudimentary. So,…"