Electronic Health Record Vendor Adherence to Usability Certification Requirements and Testing Standards Manyelectronichealthrecords (EHRs)havepoorusability, leading to user frustration and safety risks.1 Usability is the extent to which the technology helps users achieve their goals in a satisfying, effective, and efficient manner within the constraints and complexities of their work environmen...

OBJECTIVE To provide formulas for estimating notifiable disease reporting volume from 'meaningful use' electronic laboratory reporting (ELR). METHODS We analyzed two years of comprehensive ELR reporting data from 15 metropolitan hospitals and laboratories. Report volumes were divided by population counts to derive generalizable estimators. RESULTS Observed volume of notifiable disease repor...

Introduction: Spirituality at work describes employees whose job is satisfying, meaningful and purposeful. Spirituality at work would be accompanied with a meaningful life and job and a high-quality work-life for employees. This study tries to analyze the effect of nurses’ spiritual leadership components on their work-life quality. Methods: This paper is a descriptive cross-sectional stud...

introduction: this research is planning to observe the influence of sense of social security on doctors’ social health in tehran. therefore, it seems that there is a meaningful relationship among doctors’ social health as a dependent variable, and sense of social security of doctors as the main independent variable. also, piety, life satisfaction, social morality and assessing by others as the ...

In this paper we explore how to enhance our presence in Second Life by utilizing Web Services in meaningful compositions (mashups). After discussing the technical requirements that must be met, we discuss possible applications of mashups in Second Life, including serious games, and delineate a behavioral model that allows for tracking the behavior of visitors of our world. Taking our requiremen...